"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. But could he ever imagine that the wheel Aunt Horora spoke of would be the world's first Ferris wheel? Or that he wourld be one of the men chosen to construct it for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair?.
year: 2004, 1957, 1993, 1985
call number/section: 1000
subjects: ferris wheels, fiction, immigrants, irish americans, historical fiction, ireland, emigration and immigration, fiction, immigration and emigration, immigration and emigration
Editions
Lawson, Robert
Walker (2004)
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.
Schools: 3
Lawson, Robert
Scholastic (1957)
"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. But could he ever imagine that the wheel Aunt Horora spoke of would be the world's first Ferris wheel? Or that he wourld be one of the men chosen to construct it for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair?.
Schools: 1
Lawson, Robert
Walker (1993)
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.
Schools: 3
Lawson, Robert
Scholastic (1985)
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.
Schools: 0
Lawson, Robert
Schools: 0