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The Twenty-one Balloons

Average rating
4 out of 5
Based on 25,209 Ratings and 1,875 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
Publisher
BindingLibrary Binding (73 editions)
Reading LevelAges 9-12
# of Pages180
ISBN-101439516340
ISBN-13978-1439516348
Publication Date08/11/2008
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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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