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Astrid Lim
Oct 19, 2018 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: classic, adventures, newbery, middle-grade, children, travel, illustrated, popsugar-2018
I like the idea of this book: adventuring with balloon to a mysterious volcanic island. The vibe is similar to Around The World in 80 Days.

But I don't like two things about this book:

1. The translation: it's so bad and all over the place, lots of mistakes and even the blurb at the back of the book contained a very serious error (The professor was found with 20 balloons, not 21. The 21 balloons refer to his other balloon, Globe).

2. The writer has mistakenly said that Krakatoa Island is in Pacifi ...more
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Katie
Oct 20, 2016 rated it really liked it
Shelves: young-adult, newbery, ___australia-oceania
This is the story of a man who takes a hot air balloon trip and ends up stranded on Krakatoa, a volcanic island that is secretly inhabited. The island is a planned community of sorts. The twenty families that reside on the island had to meet specific criteria. They had to have a boy and girl child to eventually continue to island's population, and they had to be particularly creative and imaginative so as not to get bored and to continue to innovate. All the families are known by a letter and li ...more
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superawesomekt
Jul 17, 2011 rated it liked it
Shelves: juvenile-literature, adventure-chivalry-romance
Very cute little story about a balloonist and his relaxing worldwide trip gone awry. Quick read and would probably make a good read-aloud.
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Kristin
Dec 11, 2008 rated it really liked it
Shelves: young-adult
SarahC
Apr 24, 2010 marked it as to-read
Shelves: spring2010
Jessica
Jul 02, 2010 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Aug 29, 2011 marked it as to-read
Davida "Davi"
Nov 16, 2011 rated it it was amazing
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Mar 13, 2012 rated it really liked it
Tanya
Aug 21, 2012 marked it as to-read
Shelves: kids-1001books-8plus
Kate
Oct 09, 2012 rated it really liked it
Shelves: newberry-marathon-club
Kristen
Jul 01, 2013 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: classics, n-a-books-have, read-secondary
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Nov 16, 2013 marked it as to-read
Erica
Jan 26, 2014 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: 2014
Christy
Jun 07, 2015 rated it liked it
Jocelyn
Oct 07, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: award-newbery
Cheryl
Jan 26, 2018 marked it as consider-reading
Jennifer
Nov 21, 2018 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: children-s
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Feb 12, 2023 marked it as to-read
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