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Classic Adventure Line
No. 02
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The Crooked Magician's Recipe

An Ozland Adventure
Coming September 2026
Classic Adventure Line · Book 02

The Crooked Magician's Recipe

An Ozland Adventure

The Patchwork Girl has come to life. The Crooked Magician is in trouble. And Ojo the Unlucky has a quest.

Endings
14
Ages
10–13
Released
September 2026
§ About the book

One impossible quest. Five paths to Ozland glory.

Uncle Nunkie and Margolotte are frozen as marble statues, and the only way to save them is to collect four magical ingredients scattered across the Land of Oz. Some are rare. Some are dangerous. And at least one of them is illegal.

You will meet the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Glass Cat, Princess Ozma, Glinda the Good, and the great Wizard of Oz himself. But your most important companion? The Patchwork Girl. Stuffed with cotton, covered in scraps of a hundred-year-old quilt, brought to life with just a little too much cleverness, who is impossible to predict, impossible to silence, and absolutely impossible not to love.

This is the only IF/THEN title with a genuine object-collection quest built into its structure. Ojo must gather four ingredients to reverse the Crooked Magician's mistake, but Oz law strictly forbids harming any living creature, and at least one ingredient can't be gathered without breaking the rules. How far will you go to save someone you love?

14 endings across 5 levels. Level 5, Ultimate Ozland Hero, is a meta-achievement earned by finding all five Level 4 endings across multiple reads. No other IF/THEN book rewards replay this way. For readers ages 10–13 and anyone who has ever wished the Land of Oz had more choices in it.

§ What's inside

The book in plain numbers.

14 endings across 5 achievement levels
36 decision points
Level 5 meta-achievement for finding all best endings
A genuine quest with four magical ingredients to collect
The full cast of Oz: Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, Glinda, Princess Ozma
Based on the original by L. Frank Baum
5×8 paperback, approx. 160 pages
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