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Roller Skates

by Ruth Sawyer · December 31, 1975

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Liberated for a year from her parents' restrictions, ten-year-old Lucinda discovers true freedom in the care of her temporary guardians as she roller skates around the streets of turn-of-the-century New York.

Roller skatingNewbery MedalJuvenile literatureJuvenile fictionFictionFriendshipNeighborlinessCity and town lifeRoller-skatingNewbery Award Book 1937Children's fictionNew york (n.y.), fiction