Abby in Oz (Whatever After Special Edition #2) (Whatever After: Special Edition)

My 9-year old daughter and I have been reading this series over the past two years. While she is old enough to read them on her own now, she still prefers to listen to me read (which I don’t mind, since I love them as much as she does). We love the adventures that Abby takes in each story. This story, like the others, is fun and engaging. It also adds plenty of humor; some of the lines have my daughter rolling with laughter! As a parent, I love the beautiful writing and the “morals/lessons” that accompany each story. In all these aspects, Abby in Oz is one of our new favorites!

My daughter and I have collected this entire series, every one is spectacular and always a joy!. She is 11 and we both enjoy reading this series together. This cover is by far our favorite, the gold accents are beautiful. Three chapters in already and we can't wait to see how it unfolds!

The latest book in this wonderful series may be the best yet. For one thing, Abby (and her friends) are off to see the Wizard. And who doesn't love the Wizard of Oz? But we also just devoured the puzzles, word games, and maps in the back.

My 9 year old daughter was so excited for this next book that she saved up her own money to buy it herself after re-reading all the other books in this series! It’s a fairly easy read, but the story lines are so enthralling they keep her captivated and she could hardly stop reading to even eat! She loved this one so much she kept finding me to share passages she found enjoyable, and even read part of it to her 8 year old brother. Seriously if you have a child who maybe is struggling to get into reading try this series! It’s phenomenal!

My 7 year old daughter and I love reading this whole series and this one was just as great as the rest!

Lover this author and all of her books!

My daughter's second favorite series. She loves these books! If your kid likes this series, they might like Gregor the Overlander or Elsewhere. They are a little bit scarier than whatever after but my second grader is obsessed with these three series.

A great series. They are fine books for shared reading or independent reading. The plots are clever and the characters interesting. The author talks to her readers but does not talk down to them. My 7 and 9-year-old granddaughters love the Whatever After books.

Four years ago, when my oldest daughter, Abby, was a much more reluctant reader we began this series. As part of the family reading challenge she needs to read at least 20 minutes each day. When we began this series, I would read 2 pages for every page she read. Now she reads to me. And this book she read to be beginning to end over nine days. And She read to me while I worked out, killing two birds with one stone. Last summer while on a road trip with her Aunt and Nana she read them two of these books. And she read me the other special edition last fall. And this second Special Edition she has just finished reading to me.We both really enjoy the whatever After books. As have other family members she has read them to. This is the fifth that we have read together. And of all the Whatever After books this one is now my daughters favorite. She really liked that there was less focus on Jonah not being with Abby this time. She also appreciated the conflict between the friends, and how they had to all realize things in order to overcome it. She loved the final conflict with the witches, and is now using this story in her own bid to get a new puppy.Again after reading this story we also talked about what other books we would love to see Abby dropped into. Her top pick would be one of the Narnia books, specifically The Magician’s Nephew, or The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I on the other hand thought immediately of the possibilities if Abby were to find herself and her friends in The Giver by Lois Lowry, or Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit. But I am getting ahead of myself, lets take a look at this specific book. My daughter also wondered about dropping Abby in the tv Series Once where things are already messed up.This second Whatever After Special Edition they are different than any of the other books for a number of reasons. First, Jonah and Abby do not go together into the story. Second, they do not get to the story via Mary Rose the magic mirror in their basement. In this one Abby and her friends get caught up in a tornado while in a tree house and are transported to Oz. What is similar is that they end up in a story. Then they mess the story up somehow and need to fix it to find their way out. But this time they need to not only find a way home themselves, they need to help Dorothy and Toto find a way home. They encounter many of the characters from the story, and one evil fairy who has a nasty plan and purpose, and Gluck is out to get them, especially Abby.With the first Special Edition I mentioned I enjoyed it more than the source story. That was not the case this time, but it was still a great read. I really enjoy that my daughter who is now 13 still enjoys these books and is willing to read them to me. This is a great addition to the stories in the ‘Whatever After’ world. We both give it a very solid 5/5 Stars!