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Synopsis
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?
Is The Twenty-One Balloons appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 8 and up.
A whimsical adventure about a professor's balloon voyage that goes wonderfully wrong. Contains mild peril typical of classic middle grade adventure, no inappropriate content.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, no sexual content, and clean language.
Who'll love this
Kids will love the mystery of how one balloon became twenty-one and the fantastical inventions and adventure.