Roller Skates is a book by Ruth Sawyer that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1937. It deals with the author's New York childhood.
The story takes place in New York City in the 1890s, during the year of 10-year-old Lucinda's "orphanage," as Lucinda calls the year in which her parents go to Italy, leaving her in the care of Miss Peters and Miss Nettie. This is a year of freedom for Lucinda, who explores the ...
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Roller Skates is a book by Ruth Sawyer that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1937. It deals with the author's New York childhood.
The story takes place in New York City in the 1890s, during the year of 10-year-old Lucinda's "orphanage," as Lucinda calls the year in which her parents go to Italy, leaving her in the care of Miss Peters and Miss Nettie. This is a year of freedom for Lucinda, who explores the city on roller skates and makes friends wherever she goes. She reads Shakespeare with her uncle, puts on her own puppet production of The Tempest, creates a wonderful Christmas for a little girl from an impoverished family, helps a family protect their fruit stand from attacks by rowdy boys, and has picnics in a vacant lot, amongst other adventures.
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