Spy in the sky
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.
Aerial operationsFictionHistoryHot air balloonsJuvenile fictionOrphansUnited States Civil War, 1861-1865Juvenile Fiction