Thirteen-year-old Rosie Beckett has never strayed further from her family's farm than a horse can pull a cart. Then a letter from her Aunt Euterpe arrives, and everything changes. It's 1893, the year of the World's Columbian Exposition-the "wonder of the age"-a.k.a. the Chicago...
From Newbery Medal-winning author Richard Peck comes a dazzling slice of American History, set during the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. ? In his celebrated, Newbery-winning novels A Year Down Yonder and A Long Way from Chicago , Richard Peck carried us happily back to the Midwest...
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Thirteen-year-old Rosie Beckett has never strayed further from her family's farm than a horse can pull a cart. Then a letter from Aunt Euterpe arrives, and everything changes. It's 1893, the year of the World's Columbian Exposition -- the "wonder of the age" -- otherwise known...