Flight for freedom : the Wetzel family's daring escape from East Germany by Fulton, Kristen 

BTSB Prebound(Chronicle Books, 2020)

BTSB #: 361527 Available

Dewey: 325/NAges: 5-8   
AR: 3.7 LG Lexile: 1010 NC F&P: R

Genres:

Subjects: Wetzel, Peter Escapes - Germany (East) Political refugees - Germany (East) Hot air balloons Communism - Germany (East)

Summary: Many people attempted daring escapes over the Berlin Wall, and most failed, giving their lives for the hope of freedom. This is the true story of one child, Peter Wetzel, and his family's daring escape from East Berlin to West Berlin via handmade hot air balloon in 1979.

Up and away! : how two brothers invented the hot-air balloon by Henry, Jason 

BTSB Prebound(Sterling Children's Books, 2018)

BTSB #: 439686 Available

Dewey: 629.13/CAges: 5-9   
Lexile: 940

Genres:

Subjects: Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel,|d1740-1810 Montgolfier, Jacques-Etienne,|d1745-1799 Hot air balloons Flight Inventions Inventors

Summary: More than a century before the Wright Brothers, Frenchmen Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier sent a flying machine into the skies-a hot-air balloon with three animals in a basket.