The great wheel (Newbery honor roll)

By Robert Lawson

Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.), Immigrants, Ferris wheels, Fiction, Children's fiction, Emigration and immigration, Irish, united states, fiction, Irish Americans, Newbery Honor, Emigration and immigration, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Fairs, fiction

Description: 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.