Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride (with audio recording)
- ISBN-10
- 1481439057
- ISBN-13
- 9781481439053
- Series
- Hot Air
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 40
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-12-09
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Marjorie Priceman
Description
The first "manned" hot-air balloon is about to take off! But what are those noises coming from the basket? Based on the (POSSIBLY) true report of a day in 1783, this si the story of (PERHAPS) the bravest collection of flyers the world has ever seen, as (SORT OF) told to Marjorie Priceman.
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- 2022-08
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- 2021-10-07
- 333 pages
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