The Great Wheel

The Great Wheel

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Publisher's Synopsis

Newbery Honor book

"Your fortune lies to the west. Keep your face to the sunset . . . and one day you'll ride the greatest wheel in all the world."

When Aunt Honora reads this fortune in his tea leaves, Conn Kilroy knows he is destined for greater things than his small Irish village can offer. A letter from his uncle Michael in America offering Conn a partnership in his New York contracting company sets Conn on his western adventure. Just a few short months later Conn's Uncle Patrick lures him even farther west to Chicago, where they join the hardworking crew building what some called Ferris's Folly-the first Ferris wheel-then the largest wheel in the world and the showpiece of Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.

Book information

ISBN: 9780802777058
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Imprint: Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: [Fic]
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 180
Weight: 159g
Height: 196mm
Width: 134mm
Spine width: 13mm