Title: Spy in the sky
Description: 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.
Subjects: Aerial operations, Fiction, History, Hot air balloons, Juvenile fiction, Orphans, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Juvenile Fiction
Places: United States
People: T. S. C. Lowe (1832-1913)
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865