When Northerner Thaddeus Lowe lands his huge balloon in South Carolina at the beginning of the Civil War, ten-year-old orphan Ridley Jones joins up with him and the two set out to find a way to use Lowe's balloon to help the North.
- ISBN10 0786822392
- ISBN13 9780786822393
- Publish Date 1 June 1997 (first published 1 April 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Hyperion Books for Children
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 55
- Language English