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This exciting title shows readers how important volume is to flying a hot air balloon properly. Explore the history of the hot air balloon and learn how these eye-catching balloons fly! For hot air balloons to fly properly, passengers have to calculate the volume of the basket to see which balloon will be able to carry them. With vibrant images, easy-to-read text, simple practice problems, and clear mathematical diagrams, this title will engage readers...
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Cookie chronicles volume 1
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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.
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Contains two stories featuring hippo friends George and Martha in which George must find a way to tell Martha he does not like the split pea soup she has made without hurting her feelings, and Martha consoles George when his plans to fly in a hot air balloon do not go as expected.
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Boxcar children volume 47
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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.
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Sally the dog series volume 7
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
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2009.
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English
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Lured into a hot air balloon by the smell of fried chicken, Sally the black labrador retriever inadvertently goes for a ride all by herself.
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Harcourt Brace
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c1999
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English
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Altoona Baboona travels the world in her hot air balloon.
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A poignant short story based on a real life observation set in the Cambridgeshire countryside of England. Just as Destiny touched me I was to meet a stranger, not face to face but by 13 words he wrote that day in a little red book. Only later did the irony become significant through words, photographs and a meeting of minds. Was this by chance? Or rather perhaps a time capsule of events and connections resulting in this most interesting of outcomes....
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Throughout history, hot-air balloons have been used for a number of practical and recreational purposes. With their beautiful and often brightly colored designs, hot-air balloons are objects of high interest and curiosity, especially among young readers who are already interested in other kinds of aircraft. Readers of this engaging book follow along with Piggles, a charming pig, to learn all about hot-air balloons. Vibrant illustrations and carefully...
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It is Sunday afternoon, and Theodosia and Drayton are catering a formal tea at a hot-air balloon rally. The view aloft is not only stunning, they are also surrounded by a dozen other colorful hot-air balloons. But as the sky turns gray and the clouds start to boil up, a strange object zooms out of nowhere. It is a drone, and it appears to be buzzing around the balloons, checking them out.
As Theodosia and Drayton watch, the drone, hovering like some...
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"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"--
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