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The great wheel / written and illustrated by Robert Lawson.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PZ7 .L4384
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lawson, Robert, 1892-1957.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)--Juvenile fiction.
- World's Columbian Exposition.
- Teenage boys--Juvenile fiction.
- Teenage boys.
- Ferris wheels--Juvenile fiction.
- Ferris wheels.
- Emigration and immigration--Juvenile fiction.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Irish Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- Irish Americans.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Juvenile fiction.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Koelle, Barbara S. (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking Press, [1957]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Newbery Honor Book, 1958.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Barbara S. Koelle.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lawson, Robert, 1892-1957. Great wheel.
- OCLC:
- 224512
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