Olshan, 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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE OLS

Warner, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WAR

Van 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

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fiction Pic Van Leeuwen

Coerr, Eleanor.

Summary: Ariel almost causes her famous mother to lose a balloon race and then helps her win it.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 1992

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE COE

Mott, 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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MOT