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Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 47
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harry the rabbit starts his job at the 4 Color Balloon Factory where he is asked by his boss to blow up 100 balloons for Mrs. Doopido's birthday party. When Harry wants to make sure he has the correct number of balloons, his co-workers offer suggestions for different ways to count them.
6) Sky chasers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Magpie, a talented thief, finds her life upended by an encounter with a boy dangling over the rooftops of Paris.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mr. Fox is going to the moon. Away he goes in his hot air balloon. But wait. Can Elephant come too? Sure! Let's bring along some pizza. What about Giraffe? And Squirrel? Everyone is welcome in Mr. Fox's balloon, but look out--a surprise is in store for everyone, too"--
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The first stage in the adventure of human flight began with daring inventors and aeronauts in 18th-century Paris, where a handful of brilliant and colorful pioneers developed all the essential features of today’s hot air and gas balloons. Their exploits fascinated Benjamin Franklin, who was serving in Paris as the American ambassador. To explore this burst of innovation, NOVA re-creates key flights, including the world’s first manned voyage on...
Author
Series
His dark materials volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a time before Lyra Silvertongue was born, the tough American balloonist Lee Scoresby and the great armoured 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 right in the middle of a political powder keg.
12) What goes up
Author
Series
Publisher
Papercutz
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After stealing a million in investment cash, a desperate robber commandeers a hot air balloon at the local exposition, only to be lost in a raging storm. The balloon was tracked to a high mountain area before going down. When Police Chief McGinnis refuses to take Nancy on the recovery effort, she and the girls stowaway with the investment bankers, also climbing the mountain, in an effort to recover their funds. Unfortunately, once the balloon is...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 1010L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Many people attempted daring escapes over the Berlin Wall, and most failed, giving their lives for the hope of freedom. This is the true story of one child, Peter Wetzel, and his family's daring escape from East Berlin to West Berlin via handmade hot air balloon in 1979"--
14) Red Rhino
Author
Series
Publisher
G. Stevens Children's Books
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
[16] p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
High-rise private eyes volume 4
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bunny and Jack, animal detectives, investigate the disappearance of the balloons from the neighborhood toy store.
16) The big balloon
Author
Series
Publisher
Nosy Crow
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pip is proud of his big red balloon, but when he lets go of it and it floats away out of reach, Posy cheers him up with lots of bubbles.
19) The red balloon
Publisher
Allied Artists Classics
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (42 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Film presents two magical views of balloons. A young boy in Paris makes friends with a red balloon that has a mind of its own. The dreaded pincushion man spreads terror throughout balloon land by throwing his needles. Both film and cartoon are without dialogue.
20) Up
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
C2009
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Carl Fredericksen is a 78- year-old curmudgeon. He used to enjoy his modest life as a balloon seller when his adventure-loving wife Ellie was still alive. When she died, Carl was left with his memories and the awareness that they never made their dream journey to Paradise Falls in South America. When well-meaning officials consign Carl to Shady Oaks Retirement Home, he rigs thousands of helium balloons to his house and floats away. He discovers that...
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