Winner of the 1948 Newbery Medal, The Twenty-One Balloons is a classic adventure story your young students will love. Professor William Waterman Sherman planned to fly across the Pacific Ocean on a giant balloon. But after just three weeks from his departure, Sherman is found drifting at sea among the wreckage of twenty deflated balloons. As Sherman recounts the events leading up to his accident, readers learn all about his adventures on Krakatoa, a magnificent volcanic island inhabited by an eccentric group of families.
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