The great wheel

Title
The great wheel

Personal Author EPSB
Robert, Lawson

Summary
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.

Year Published
1985,
 
1957
 
2004,

Physical Description
180 pages : ilustrations ; 19 cm.

Note
This title may be found in the Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention Purple System Choice Library Grade 5 Level U kit.
 
"A Newbery honor book"--Cover p. [4]. Division 2
 
Originally published: New York : Viking, 1957.

Reading Grade level
5.8

Grade Interest level
All Juvenile

Conference Subject
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) -- Fiction.

Subject
Ferris wheels -- Fiction.
 
Immigrants -- Fiction.
 
Irish Americans -- Fiction.
 
Historical fiction.

Geographic Term
Ireland -- Immigration and emigration -- Fiction.

Summary
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.

ISBN
9780590482844
 
9780802777058
 
9780329399207

Publisher
New York : Scholastic Inc., 1957, 1985.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
George P. NicholsonCL5Teacher resource31004000270095Checked out
George P. NicholsonCL5Teacher resource31004000289418Checked out