Title The twenty-one balloons / written and illustrated by William Pène Du Bois.

Imprint

New York : Viking Press, 1975.

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Basement Materials	J DUB c.3	Check Shelf
Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Children's Department	J DUB	Check Shelf
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Children's Department	JUV. 818 D816TA	Check Shelf

Description	179, [1] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note	"First published ... April 1947."
Awards	Newbery Medal, 1948.
Summary	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.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.8 6.0 91.
Subject	Eruption of Krakatoa (Indonesia : 1883) (OCoLC)fst01353004
	Krakatoa (Indonesia) -- Eruption, 1883 -- Juvenile literature.
	Balloons -- Juvenile fiction.
	Voyages and travels -- Juvenile fiction.
	Krakatoa (Indonesia) -- Eruption, 1883 -- Juvenile fiction.
	Balloons -- Fiction.
	Voyages and travels -- Fiction.
	Newbery Medal -- 1948.
	Krakatoa (Indonesia) -- Eruption, 1883 -- Fiction.
	Balloons. (OCoLC)fst00826138
	Voyages and travels. (OCoLC)fst01169308
	Indonesia -- Krakatoa. (OCoLC)fst01245514
Chronological Term	1883
Genre/Form	Action and adventure fiction. (OCoLC)fst01921574
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Adventure fiction.
ISBN	0670734411
	9780670734412

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