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Twenty-One Balloons
SKU
059993
ISBN
9780142403303
Grade 5-9
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Description
When Professor Sherman leaves San Francisco, he intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean in a hot air balloon. However, a strange coincidence lands him on a legendary island, which contains millions of diamonds, and weird inhabitants with fantastic balloon inventions. The professor is forced to stay on the island, but situations arise that force them all to escape. This humorous and fantastic tale will get any reader's imagination going. Dozens of black-and-white sketches illustrate the book. Winner of the Newbery Medal, this edition has a metallic silver cover, 180 softcover pages, and is 5x7x.5. Laura
Publisher's Description of Twenty-One Balloons
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 balloons . . . and in the wrong ocean?
Details
| Product Format: | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Brand: | Puffin Books |
| Author: | William Pene Du Bois |
| Grades: | 5-9 |
| ISBN: | 9780142403303 |
| Length in Inches: | 7 |
| Width in Inches: | 5 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.5 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 0.35 |
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