The Gumm Street Girls hate one another. Despite their differences, however, they end up embroiled in an adventure together when events on Gumm street start to go a little OZ. Yep, the wizard himself shows up in balloon at one point and the book is full of witches and evil deeds.

This is definitely a younger kids book despite it's size. The humor is flat and predictable and lacks the complexity of a lot of other excellent kids books. It just lacked a certain spark for me. The writing level seemed aimed at younger kids as well.

While my daughter was initially really interested in the book, by 2/3 of the way through she didn't care anymore and happily set the book asside. It's not a bad story, just not a particularly great one either.