Can someone ID this book for me?

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It’s about a group of kids that build a flying raft, for lack of a better term, and refuse to descend back to the ground until their parents conform to their wishes. I think there might have been some sort of a social moral involved.

It has been many years since I read this, it’s probably considered a book for pre-teens IIRC.

Thanks in advance to the person that nails it.

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The first thing I thought of was The Wreck of the Zephyr, but I don’t think that’s quite what you’re looking for. I’ll try to dig some more.

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Not it. Thanks for the effort though. We’ll find it soon.

4

Pippi Longstockings?

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Well, there’s a flying raft, of sorts, in William Pène du Bois’ Twenty-One Balloons. There are kids and parents, too. That’s about the extent of the similarity, though.

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I’m pretty sure the platform or raft had propellers that kept it afloat if that helps.

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Last bump, then thread dies.