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Roller Skates is a book by Ruth Sawyer that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American childrens literature in 1937. It deals with the authors New York childhood.
Plot summary
The story takes place in New York City in the 1890s, during the year of 10-year-old Lucindas "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.
Category:Newbery Medal winners (book)
Category:1936 novels
Category:American childrens novels
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