Davis, Kathryn

"Capturing an engineer's creative vision and mind for detail, this fully illustrated picture book biography sheds light on how the American inventor George Ferris defied gravity and seemingly impossible odds to invent the world's most iconic amusement park attraction, the Ferris wheel"--From the publisher.

Three girls come across the body of a dead man lying on the beach in the small town of Varennes; and while two of them go to find help, twelve-year-old Mees Kipp stays and miraculously bring the man back to life.

Discovering a dead body at a lake near the Canadian border, twelve-year-old Mees Kipp brings the man back to life and realizes that she possesses an extraordinary gift that irrevocably shapes the lives of Mees and her two friends.