Roller Skates (A Newbery Award Book)
The discoveries and adventures of ten-year-old Lucinda, who spends a wonderful year exploring the New York City of the 1890's.
The discoveries and adventures of ten-year-old Lucinda, who spends a wonderful year exploring the New York City of the 1890's.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140303582 (0140303588)
ASIN: 0140303588
Publish date: 1986-05-06
Publisher: Viking Penguin
Pages no: 186
Edition language: English
I really enjoyed reading this old Newbery winner, I enjoyed it quite a bit. A ten year old girl gets a year in Manhattan in the 1890s, a year to do pretty much whatever she likes and nothing she doesn't. So, what she does is, she makes all kinds of interesting friends at all levels, and she is ado...
A comfort read. There’s something so magical about Lucinda Wyman and her year of New York life. [Oct. 2008]
“Who wanted to walk through lonely years, right foot, left foot, and never change step---never skip, run or skate?”That’s Lucinda, an Anne-of-Green-Gables girl, filled with energy and enthusiasm, unexpectedly set loose in the city of New York. Lucinda’s parents head off to Europe for their health a...
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