Matthew Olshan

Written in reverse, describes the story of an aging prisoner who is released only to be rescued from an assault by a curator, who works at a museum exhibiting “the marshes,” a conflict-torn wilderness where the former prisoner committed his crime. 20,000 first printing.

A Novel

Marshlands

A hilarious fictionalized retelling of the first international balloon flight.

The (Mostly) True Story of the First International Flight by Balloon in 1785

A Voyage in the Clouds

Sophie Blackall

In Paris, France, more than a hundred years ago, a small man named Lalouche is let go from his job as a mail carrier and discovers that he has great skill as a fighter. By the author of Finn: A Novel, a modern retelling of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, with girls starring as the protagonists rather than boys; and the illustrator of the New York Times Best Illustrated Award-winning Big Red Lollipop.

The Mighty Lalouche

Allele Island is a beachcomber's paradise for a little primate named Eena Beena, who tends her stretch of beach, and the hapless creatures who wash up there, as if it were her own private garden. Then a deranged ape named Prospero arrives with plans to kidnap the island's queen, sweeping Eena Beena into a calamity which takes her to the ends of the world--and seemingly to the end of time.

The Flown Sky

In the year and a half since the flight of the first manned balloon in 1783, an Italian has flown, a Scot has flown, a woman has flown, even a sheep has flown. But no one has flown from one country to another. John Jeffries, an Englishman, and his pilot, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, a Frenchman, want to be the first. On January 7, 1785, they set out to cross the English Channel to France in a balloon. All seemed to be going fine, until Jeffries decides the balloon looks too fat and adjusts the air valve—how hard could it be? Too bad he drops the wrench over the side of the aerial car. With no way to adjust the valve, the balloon begins to sink. Jeffries and Blanchard throw as much as they can overboard—until there is nothing left, not even their clothes. Luckily, they come up with a clever (and surprising) solution that saves the day. A VOYAGE IN THE CLOUDS from Matthew Olshan and Sophie Blackall is a journey that will keep kids laughing the whole way. A Margaret Ferguson Book

"Rescued from a murderous life with her mother, Chloe Wilder lives with her grandparents in the cocoon of a quiet, middle-class neighborhood. For the first time in her life, things are steady, safe ... and stifling."--Jacket.

Matthew Olshan

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