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CRC Juv.D83 1986
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TITLE:
The twenty-one balloons / written and illustrated by William Pène Du Bois.
ADDED TITLE:
21 balloons
AUTHOR:
Du Bois, William Pène, 1916-
SERIES:
Puffin Newbery library
PUBLISHED:
New York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, 1986, c1947.
DESCRIPTION:
179 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
NOTES:
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1947.
NOTES:
Wilson's Children
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Newbery Medal/Honor
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School Library Journal
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Relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman who in 1883 sets off in a balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic.
NOTES:
Reading grade level: 5.7
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Interest level: 3-6
NOTES:
Newbery Medal/Honor.
SUBJECT:
Balloons--Fiction.
SUBJECT:
Voyages and travels--Fiction.
SUBJECT:
Krakatoa (Indonesia)--Eruption, 1883.
SUBJECT:
Newbery Medal.
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