Book
The Great Wheel
by Robert Lawson
- Published
- 1957
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Words
- 34695
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 6.5
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile
- 990L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 9–14
Irish immigrant Conn Kilroy comes to America in the 1890s and helps build the enormous Ferris wheel for Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition, fulfilling a family prediction while making a new life in the United States.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780802777058
Tags
Award Winners-Newbery HonorHistorical Fiction-Historical Fiction (All)IrelandRecommended Reading-Wheatley Aligned Supplemental TextsSocial Issues-Emigration/Immigration