The great wheel Lawson, Robert 1892-1957 creator text nyu New York Walker 2004 monographic eng
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180 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. Eighteen-year-old Conn leaves Ireland and sails to America, where he helps build the first Ferris wheel for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. Z' 990 Lexile Z' Raz-Plus juvenile text and illustrations by Robert Lawson ; foreword by Richard Peck. Newbery Honor Book, 1958. World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Fiction Ferris wheels Fiction Immigrants Fiction Irish Americans Fiction Ireland Emigration and immigration Fiction PZ7.L4384 Gr 2004 813 0802777058 (pbk.) 2004061182 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0619/2004061182-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0619/2004061182-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0619/2004061182-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0619/2004061182-d.html DLC 041109 20231006160141.0 1865 eng