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The Twenty-One Balloons

by William Pène du Bois

Middle grade · ages 8–12 · grades 3–7 · 750L · 179 pages · 1999

Why we'd hand it over

A Newbery winner that earns it — ingenious premise, beautiful technical illustrations, and a protagonist who thinks his way out of catastrophe rather than stumbling through.

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The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois (ages 8–12) — ChapterScout