About this work of fiction

Scott Foresman reading. Grade 6, Trade book library resource guide by Betsy Cromer Byars; Ruud van der Rol; Patricia Lauber; Jean Craighead George; Candy Dawson Boyd; Russell Freedman; Charlotte Yue; Laurence Yep; William Pène du Bois; Robert D Ballard; James Giblin; Ellen Raskin; Scott, Foresman and Company is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

<p><p>professor William Waterman Sherman Just Wants To Be Alone. So He Decides To Take A Year Off And Spend It Crossing The Pacific Ocean In A Hot-air Balloon The Likes Of Which No One Has Ever Seen. But When He Is Found After Just Three Weeks Floating In The Atlantic Among The Wreckage Of Twenty Hot-air Balloons, Naturally, The World Is Eager To Know What Happened. How Did He End Up With So Many Balloons . . . And In The Wrong Ocean? <br> <b>winner Of The Newbery Medal</b></p><h3>children's Literature</h3><p>this Newbery Medal Winner Was Written In 1947 And Definitely Has The Look And Feel Of Another Era. Professor Sherman Wants To Retire From Teaching Math And Travel By Balloon For A Whole Year. His Balloon, The Globe, Rose Quickly And Is Carried From San Francisco Out Over The Ocean. Sea Gulls Fighting Over Food On The Top Of His Balloon Punctured It, And Professor Sherman Plummets To The Legendary Island Of Krakatoa. How He Ended In The Atlantic In A 20-balloon Contraption After Krakatoa Exploded Is What Kept A Nation Transfixed Until He Could Tell His Story-but Only To The Western American Explorers Club. Numerous Drawings By The Author Accompany The Story To Help Kids Visuali

Author

Betsy Cromer Byars; Ruud van der Rol; Patricia Lauber; Jean Craighead George; Candy Dawson Boyd; Russell Freedman; Charlotte Yue; Laurence Yep; William Pène du Bois; Robert D Ballard; James Giblin; Ellen Raskin; Scott, Foresman and Company

Publisher

Scott Foresman

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780140325874

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Children'S, Fiction