Sky chasers

Carroll, Emma

Jackson, Neal

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Emma Carroll
279 pages
From a prize-winning idea by Neal Jackson. (Title page)
Summary: France, 1783: An encounter with a boy dangling from the sky changes pickpocket Magpie's life forever. Like her, the boy dreams of flying over the rooftops of Paris. His family, the Montgolfiers, are desperate to be first to discover the secret of flight. Together with Pierre, Magpie is soon caught up in a world of inflatable bloomers, spies and a trio of unruly animals in a race to be the first to fly a hot air balloon - in front of the King and Queen of France
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Fiction 2931
Genre:Historical fiction
Adventure stories
Historical fiction
Adventure stories
call #:CAR
ISBN:9781910655535
pub:2018