It is in this book that Emerald City is discovered. A little Valley girl, Myra Doom--is carried in her youth to Emerald City when a cyclone of experience whisks her through the sky. As her skateboard wheels land in the houses of nearby characters, it destroys a journey of youthful options and sends Myra off on her first adventure into the recipes of the Anarchist's Cookbook. She finds Patrick Sprye, Wannabe-Astraunaut, the BedPans, Martin the Hound, and confronts her mother, Lula, the witch of the Southlands teeming to sell off the only home that teenaged Myra has ever known to lessor Yuppies. Since this book appeared a half-decade ago, we have learned many marvelous things about the Emerald City.