Hi everyone!
This is my first update, and the book I read is called The Twenty One Balloons, by William Pene De Bouis. The book is about a retired math professor, Mr. William Waterman Sherman, who decides to take a balloon trip across the pacific ocean. He crash lands into an island called Krakatoa. Then Mr. Sherman meets a man named Mr. F who shows him around the island and the people who are living on it. Then a volcano on the island erupts, and Mr. Sherman, Mr. F, and all the other people on the island abandoned it. I really liked the Diamond mines in the middle of the story, and found it interesting how the people of Krakatoa distributed the diamonds throughout the countries. I was a little puzzled about the Balloon Airy Go Round, a contraption mentioned towards the end of the book. I understood how it’s purpose was to carry people over the island, but I didn’t quite understand it’s inner workings. The book was a mix between sci-fi and realistic fiction, and I greatly recommend it for children aging from 9-14. Thank you, and bye!