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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Freddy and the perilous adventure	Walter R. Brooks,Kurt Wiese	A ballooning mishap sends Freddy the pig and some animal friends on a cross-country chase, on the trail of a blackmailing scheme, and into the prizefight ring.	OL1970120W
The mouse that saved the West	Leonard Wibberley	The fourth book in the bestselling The Mouse That Roared series brings the Duchy of Grand Fenwick's most extraordinary achievement yet—the defeat of OPEC and the happy solution to the world's oil cri…	OL2649004W
Balloon ride	Evelyn Clarke Mott	Megan goes for a ride in a hot-air balloon and learns all the details of how one is operated.	OL2947020W
Pa's balloon and other pig tales	Arthur Geisert	A pig family take their new balloon for a ride, race it, and eventually fly it over the North Pole.	OL2955221W
Victorious paints the great balloon	David Francis Birchman	Victorious, a member of the unlucky Rattan family in rural France, becomes involved in a historic hot air balloon ascension and restores good repute to the Rattans.	OL3529025W
The great balloon adventure	Paula J. Bussard	Piloting a hot air balloon with all the critters on board, Lester loses his way and his confidence until Christine recites verses from the Book of Proverbs and reminds Lester that loving God restores…	OL4078180W
A rainbow balloon	Ann Lenssen	Introduces basic concepts such as rise and fall and one and many while following "Tickled Pink," a rainbow colored hot-air balloon, on a flight.	OL4107830W
Tom Sawyer Abroad	Mark Twain	Tom's plan to become famous involves Huck Finn and his friend Jim in a crusade to the Holy Land by balloon ascension.	OL413674W
The little balloonist	Linda Donn	This irresistible literary debut novel was inspired by the life of Sophie Blanchard, one of the first women to fly.In Paris, a young widow inherits her late husband’s considerable debts, as well as h…	OL4467118W
The great round-the-world balloon race	Sue Scullard	The adventures of Harriet Shaw and her niece and nephew, Rebecca and William, as they set out on a round-the-world balloon race.	OL4472300W
Mystery in Peru	David McMullen	Discusses a series of carved lines and pictures found in the Peruvian desert believed to have been used by the Incas for balloon ascensions.	OL4964049W
Hot-air ballooning	Charles Ira Coombs	Traces the history of hot-air ballooning and describes the equipment, training, and techniques of the successful aeronaut.	OL4979469W
The Atlantic free balloon race	Thom Roberts	Eleven-year-old Ned joins his eccentric relative Mr. T. Gray and a pet Kangaroo in a balloon race from New York to London.	OL4986252W
Life on the Mississippi	Mark Twain	At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twains early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark…	OL53959W
Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer Detective and Other Stories Etc. Etc.	Mark Twain	Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? I mean the adventures we had down the river, and the time we set the darky Jim free and Tom got shot in the leg. No, he wasn't. It on…	OL54013W
Balloon trip	Ronald Wegen	A boy and girl accompany their uncle on a hot-air balloon trip that lifts off from a meadow, crosses a great city, and comes to a safe landing just ahead of a summer storm.	OL5589440W
Balloon spies	Dudley Bromley	Two civilian balloonists join the Balloon Corps in order to help the Union quickly win the war against the South.	OL6342905W
Hot air ballooning	Barry Wells	Discusses the techniques involved in flying a hot air balloon, the history of ballooning, and the development of ballooning as a sport.	OL6345339W
Riders on the wind	Laurence Swinburne	An account of how three men in a hot air balloon trace Charles Lindbergh's solo airplane route across the Atlantic in 1978.	OL6566301W
Daffodil and Golden Eagle	Jonathan Yeatman	165 p. 24 cm	OL7164157W