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In the book The 21 Balloons a professor sets off from San Fransisco in a balloon house for a balloon flight around the world. When winds blow him off course seagulls puncture the balloon and sends him downward. Suddenly, a man in a suit uses a pistol to shoot the balloon and send it down even faster. When he goes ashore he finds out that he is on the island of Kroatia and that people actully live there. Not only that, they live like kings. Then, he found out that the reason the kroatian people were so rich is that under Mt. Kroatia produces tons upon tons of diamonds and that the government is a new type, a restaurant government( a government that one of twenty families cook one day in a period of 20 days, which means that the people on the island are very lazy). When Mt. Kroatia blows up in the greatest explosion of all time(1883), they escape on a specially designed balloon raft that will carry them to safety. The winds are strong and they blow the aircraft over the asian continent, where all but one family uses parachutes to glide smoothly back to Earth. The last family stays to help the professor who doesn't have a parachute. When the last family jumps over the professor intentionally crashes the craft into the Atlantic Ocean where a ship finds him and rescues him.
My opinion of this book is that it is a very good one.
I like how the Kroatian Society is set up. The citizens have many inventions that they have invented to keep them from getting too bored. The kids even built an amusement park for themselves. This is a very interesting book and it is the best one I've ever read. I suggest you go down to your local library and pick up a copy.
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