When Darius Frobishers father flies off in a hot air balloon and doesnt comeback the boys happy carefree life suddenly comes to an end. He is torn awayfrom his ... » 

When Darius Frobishers father flies off in a hot air balloon and doesnt comeback the boys happy carefree life suddenly comes to an end. He is torn awayfrom his beloved babysitter and sent to live with his notoriously nasty AuntIda. Most of his waking time is spent trying to dodge the teenage boy nextdoor who is home from military school and hungry to do horrible things tosomeone younger than himself. Darius sees a ray of hope when he finds a rustyold bicycle in the basement and begins to repair it in secret. Could this bethe first step toward a reunion with Miss Hasting? Then one day he is startledto see an old man with long flowing hair riding a bicycle across the sky Nowhe knows what he has to do to get away from his miserable life. «