The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls

Well, it took us a couple months, but Jill and I finally finished The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls (I think I read aloud for 3 hours today to Peirce and Jill at various times! Eeesh!). But anyway, as for this book: We definitely recommend it!

This book is a take off of The Wizard of Oz....a few generations later. Quite entertaining with lots of twists and turns.

Here's the Harper Collins summary:

For seven years, bad luck has followed Ivy around like a dog on a leash. Her father disappeared, her mother is a washed–up beauty–pageant winner, and now Viola and her mother have moved into a raqmshackle house on Gumm Street. Ivy's new neighbors–bookish Pru, stuck–up Cat, and wannabe adventurer Franny–are worse than unfriendly. But then a mysterious pair of ruby red slippers turn up, and the four girls are swept away...not to OZ, but to the jaw–droppingly strange lands of SPOZ, and SPUDZ, and OOZE, pursued by the fashionably mad Cha–Cha Staccato, who bears a frightening resemblance to a certain wicked witch....