Puffin Modern Classics The Twenty-One Balloons (Puffin Modern Classics), (Paperback)

from juliette07

'There are two kinds of travel'..... So begins this 1948 Newbery award winner, a brilliant book ranging from scientific truths to absolute fantasy. At first I thought the mingling of fact and fiction would disappoint me. To the contrary I was completely enthralled and really involved in the adven...

from abwahl1998

This is probably one of my new favorites in the Newberry Award winners! From the moment the story opens, you just fall in love with Professor Sherman. He's such a down to earth little man, and to hear his tale is extraordinary. I really enjoyed the illustrations that went along in describing the ...

from dbatl

Needed this book for school and received it in two days. Couldn't ask for more!

from justinscott66

A 1948 Newberry winner! This story is about a retired math teacher who builds a balloon to help him get away from it all by spending a year floating through the skies. Instead, he is downed on the island of Krakatoa where he finds a secret colony of eccentric people with incredible wealth. This s...

from EleanorR

This Book was so much fun to read. It is about this man who gets stranded on a island and it is like a different world there. There are 32 familys living there and there culture is so different first there are diamonds every where and There houses are built on diamonds. There months are 28 days l...