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Roller Skates

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Author(s):Ruth Sawyer
Illustrator(s):Valenti Angelo
Publisher(s): Viking Press
Year Published: 1936
Type: Hardcover
Genre: American
Families
Fiction - Novel
Girls Growing Up
Historical Fiction - World War I
Age Range: Ages 7-9: Short Chapter Books
Pages: 186
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
ISBN-10: 0670603104
ISBN-13: 9780670603107
OCLC: 779650726
Award(s):
Newbery Medal
Newbery Medal - 1937
Newbery Medal
Junior Literary Guild - 1936

Description

Lucinda spends a year on her own in New York city in the 1890’s while her parents travel abroad for her mother’s health.

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