Ward, Lindsay.
Summary: Emma finds a note tucked into the saddle of a carousel polar bear asking her to bring balloons, and soon she is off on an amazing adventure.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WARMarino, Gianna
Summary: "An adventure story about a boy and his dog running through the neighborhood and playing catch."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E MARPhelan, 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 PHEOlshan, 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 OLSBaker, Alan.
Summary: Brown Rabbit finds a box of balloons and creates various shapes from them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kingfisher Books 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BAKSummary: "Bluey wants to play Mum School instead of taking her bath. But when Bluey's balloon kids go out of control, Bluey doesn't know what to do! Will Bluey figure out what they need before bathtime?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers Licenses, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1986
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DUBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION DU BHerman, 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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2 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE SCODean, James
Summary: "Help Pete the Kitty look for his missing balloon and learn the names of different baby animals"--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFestival, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE DEACurtis, Jamie Lee
Summary: A child wonders about what happens to a balloon that is let go, as a parent would wonder about what might happen to a child once he leaves home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Joanna Cotler Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC CURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Social Emo Curtis 2000Mott, 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 MOTO'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'COMorrell, 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 MORPullman, Philip
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 PULLillegard, Dee.
Summary: Rhyming text follows balloons of many colors as they float and bounce throughout an entire town.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2007
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Summary: A graphic novel adaptation of UP, seventy-eight-year-old balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen finally fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America. He discovers too late that an 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell has stowed away.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC DISSirett, Dawn.
Summary: Lift the flaps to find hidden pop-ups illustrating many types of vehicles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2012
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Summary: Piggie is upset because a whale took the ball she found, but Gerald finds a solution that pleases all of them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2015
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR GREEN SPANISH WILSummary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLICummings, Troy
Summary: Wanting to play, Arfy searches for the perfect ball.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CUMWarner, 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 WARAlessandri, Alexandra
Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ALECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALEWillems, Mo
Summary: Geraldo está cansado y gruñón. ¿Soñará con Cerdita? ¿O ella no lo dejará soñar?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2021