Twenty-One+Balloons


 * by**
 * William Pene du Bois **

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Twenty-One Balloons is for people who like restaurants, balloons, and inventions. Professor Sherman is flying in a hot air balloon and crashes on an island called Krakatau. Unlike other islands this one has fancy people and grand buildings. The island has a volcano with a diamond mine. They have a restaurants government that goes to a different house everyday, which has a different style of food starting with the first letter of their last name. Then one day all the people have to flee the island because the volcano erupted. Will they survive? My favorite part is the fact that they have a restaurant government, it is very clever. John R.