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