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The 21 Balloons

Average rating
4.1 out of 5
Based on 2,750 Ratings and 554 Reviews

Book Description
Professor William Waterman Sherman just wants to be alone. So he decides to take a year off and spend it crossing the Pacific Ocean in a hot-air balloon the likes of which no one has ever seen. But when he is found after just three weeks floating in the Atlantic among the wreckage of twenty hot-air balloons, naturally, the world is eager to know what happened. How did he end up with so many balloo... More
Book Information
PublisherDell Books for Young Readers
BindingPaperback (73 editions)
Reading LevelAges 4-8
# of Pages180
ISBN-100440491835
ISBN-13978-0440491835
Publication Date01/1981
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About William Pene Du Bois (Author) : William Pene Du Bois is a published author and an illustrator of children's books. Published credits of William Pene Du Bois include Moving Day and Bear in Mind: A Book of Bear Poems. From Wikipedia ... more
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2/15/2008 Lilly Fluger said: A wonderful tale of adventure and fun and new lands and cooking. This story makes me happy every time I reread it. I smile just remembering it. It takes place on Krakatoa.
tags: I recommend, Inspired me, I read

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10/22/2007 Stephenie Hovland said: I recently read this to my class. They enjoyed it!
tags: I recommend, I read

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8/31/2007 Elizabeth Bluemle tagged as: I Read

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