O'Connor, Barbara
Summary: Walter Tipple is looking for adventure. His big brother, Tank went to the army and never came home, and Walter doesn't know how to see the world without him. But then he meets the brash, brave new girl next door named Posey, as well as an eccentric man named Banjo who's off on a bodacious adventure of his own. What follows is a summer of mishaps, mayhem, strange quests, and strong friendships.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD O'COHerman, Gail
Summary: A whacky werewolf is terrorizing a hot air balloon race. Shaggy and Scooby take to the sky to save the day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2016
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Summary: American balloonist Lee Scoresby and the great armored bear Iorek Byrnison meet when Lee and his hare daemon Hester crash-land their trading balloon onto a port in the far Arctic North and find themselves in the middle of a political powder keg.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PULPhelan, Matt
Summary: In 1783 France, ten-year-old Emile works as Benjamin Franklin's caretaker, but after he finds himself in the middle of a sinister plot, he helps France's undercover guardians, a sheep, a rooster and a duck save the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PHEMorrell, Christyne
Summary: "When her father is arrested for a crime she unwillingly committed, Prismena will do anything to save him, taking her on a high-flying and shadowy adventure"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MORButler, Emily
Summary: Freya, a penguin, and Zoose, a mouse, become friends while stowaways on Salomon August Andreé's 1897 hot air balloon expedition to the North Pole.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BUTO'Connor, Barbara
Summary: Ten-year-old Walter Tipple is grieving his beloved older brother, Tank, when a sassy girl named Posey moves in next door and Banjo, a hot-air balloonist, sets the pair on an adventure.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC O'COWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARWeightman, Magnus
Summary: When Beaver gets lost on his journey to seek adventure, he and new friend Akita set off in a hot-air balloon to travel the world and find Beaver's way home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis Publishing Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WEIStead, Philip Christian
Summary: "When Sebastian launches himself on a journey in a hot air balloon made entirely of Grandma's afghans and patchwork quilts, his boring day turns into the adventure of a lifetime"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STEVan Leeuwen, Jean.
Summary: In this story based on true events, a thirteen-year-old apprentice takes the first manned hot air balloon flight in America and gains new insight into life's possibilities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Phyllis Fogelman Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fiction Pic Van LeeuwenOlshan, Matthew
Summary: Dr. John Jeffries and his pilot, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, each want to be the first man to fly from one country to another, across the English Channel. There's only one problem: they can't stand each other! Inspired by the true story of the first international flight.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE OLSMott, Evelyn Clarke.
Summary: Megan goes for a ride in a hot-air balloon and learns all the details of how one is operated.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MOTSirett, Dawn.
Summary: Lift the flaps to find hidden pop-ups illustrating many types of vehicles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2012