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The great wheel (Newbery honor roll)The great wheel (Newbery honor roll)

The great wheel (Newbery honor roll)

Robert Lawson

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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.

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OL Work ID
OL4234951W

Subjects

Emigration and immigrationFerris wheelsFictionImmigrantsIrish AmericansWorld's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)Juvenile fictionNewbery HonorChildren's fictionFairs, fictionEmigration and immigration, fictionIrish, united states, fiction

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