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Boxcar children volume 47
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Benny wants adventure and finds it as he and the other Alden children help uncover the plan of those who would prevent ballooning from coming to Lloyd's Landing.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Throughout history, hot-air balloons have been used for a number of practical and recreational purposes. With their beautiful and often brightly colored designs, hot-air balloons are objects of high interest and curiosity, especially among young readers who are already interested in other kinds of aircraft. Readers of this engaging book follow along with Piggles, a charming pig, to learn all about hot-air balloons." --
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Sally the dog series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lured into a hot air balloon by the smell of fried chicken, Sally the black labrador retriever inadvertently goes for a ride all by herself.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Theodosia Browning serves tea and solves crimes in Charleston, a city steeped in tradition and treachery in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs. It is Sunday afternoon, and Theodosia and Drayton are catering a formal tea at a hot-air balloon rally. The view aloft is not only stunning, they are also surrounded by a dozen other colorful hot-air balloons. But as the sky turns gray and the clouds start to boil...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
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Description
"Walter Tipple is looking for adventure. He keeps having a dream that his big brother, Tank, appears before him and says, “Let's you and me go see my world, little man.” But Tank went to the army and never came home, and Walter doesn't know how to see the world without him. Then he meets Posey, the brash new girl from next door, and an eccentric man named Banjo, who's off on a bodacious adventure of his own. What follows is a summer of taking...
12) Sky chasers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
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Description
The race is on to be the first to discover the secret of flight! Magpie is soon caught up in a world of science, spies, and unruly animals to be the first to passenger in a hot air balloon. Yesterday, Magpie was one of the best thieves in all of France. But an encounter with a boy dangling from the sky will change her life forever. And even though it ends in disaster, Magpie becomes enthralled by the idea of flying over the rooftops of Paris like...
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Incredible worlds of Wally McDoogle volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he takes part in a hot air balloon race, twelve-year-old Wally, computer whiz and "human catastrophe," learns what it means to fully put his trust in God.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 1010L
Language
English
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Description
"Many people attempted daring escapes over the Berlin Wall, and most failed, giving their lives for the hope of freedom. This is the true story of one child, Peter Wetzel, and his family's daring escape from East Berlin to West Berlin via handmade hot air balloon in 1979"--
16) Cloud capers
Author
Series
Magic puppy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Jessica accompanies her parents to a hot-air balloon festival where she meets Storm, a magic wolf that has transformed himself into a puppy, and together they enjoy the festival and prevent a dangerous mishap before Storm must return to his pack.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
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In the fall of 1883 Professor William Waterbury Sherman, weary of 40 years of teaching arithmetic, sets forth from San Francisco on a balloon expedition. What happens in the treee weeks between that day and the day he is rescued from the Atlantic Ocean makes up this unbleievable tale.
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English
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Amalia Catalon is offered the challenge of a lifetime -- being paired with thrill-seeking sportsman and businessman Rafael Sandoval in a hot-air-balloon race with a fifty-thousand-dollar prize. She will fly for a week with Rafael, who doesn't know the meaning of being afraid of heights. This is only the beginning of Amalia's great adventure.
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English
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This book tells the often dramatic and always fascinating story of flight in lighter than air machines. For centuries man had dreamed of flying, but all attempts failed, until in 1782 the Montgolfier brothers constructed the world's first hot air balloon The following year saw the first ascent with aeronauts – not human beings but a sheep, a duck and a cockerel. But it was not long before men and women too took to the air and became ever more adventurous....
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Series
TransDimensional hunter volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Becoming a global celebrity overnight would make most people happy. Not Lynn Raven. As a teenage gaming prodigy, she's enjoyed years of anonymity behind the virtual mask of Larry Coughlin, war-hardened vet and virtual gaming mercenary. But now Lynn has stepped out of the shadows to compete in the cutting-edge augmented reality game TransDimensional Hunter that has taken the world by storm. And she's winning. But with success has come swarms of paparazzi...
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