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Title:
The twenty-one balloons
JLCTITLE245:
written and illustrated by William Pène Du Bois.
Personal Author:
Pène du Bois, William, 1916-1993, author, illustrator.
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : Puffin Books, 1986.
Physical Description:
179 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
ISBN:
9780140320978

9780140303582

9780833509154
Series:
Puffin Newbery library
General Note:
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1947.
Abstract:
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.
Reading Level:
1070L Lexile.

810 L Lexile
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader MG 6.8 6.0.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.8 6.0 91.

Reading Counts RC 3-5 5.7 9 Quiz: 11918 Guided reading level: V.

Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 6.3 8 Quiz 76 English fiction, vocabulary quiz available, literary skills quiz available.
Conference Subject:
Eruption of Krakatoa (Indonesia : 1883)
Subject Term:
Balloons -- Fiction.

Voyages and travels -- Fiction.

Volcanic eruptions -- Indonesia -- Krakatoa -- Juvenile fiction.
Geographic Term:
Krakatoa (Indonesia) -- Eruption, 1883 -- Juvenile fiction.

Krakatoa (Indonesia) -- Eruption, 1883.
Genre:
Action and adventure fiction.

Historical fiction.
Variant Title:
Portion of title: 21 balloons
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