The great wheel
By: text and illustrations by Robert Lawson
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Copyright date: 1985
Subjects: Ferris wheels; Emigration and immigration; Fiction; World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.); Irish Americans
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.
Notes: Gift of Eileen Russolo.