Roller Skates
by Ruth SAwyer
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good Condition
- Seller
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Bowral, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Puffin Books, Great Britain, 1968. Softcover. Good Condition. Illustrator: Shirley Hughes. PS 358. Growing up in a well-to-do family with strict rules and routines can be tough for a ten-year-old girl who only wants to roller skate. But when Lucinda Wyman's parents go overseas on a trip to Italy and leave her behind in the care of Miss Peters and Miss Nettie in New York City, she suddenly gets all the freedom she wants! Lucinda zips around New York on her roller skates, meeting tons of new friends and having new adventures every day. But Lucinda has no idea what new experiences the city will show her.... Some of which will change her life forever. 176 pages. Pages well browned. Illustrator: Shirley Hughes. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Children's::Children's Fiction; Children; Children's::Puffin. Inventory No: 260903..
Synopsis
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.
Reviews
On Oct 7 2014, a reader said:
I thought it would be a happy-go-lucky book about way back when, but I was surprised by how many dark topics, like murder and death are in it.
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Details
- Bookseller
- leura books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 260903
- Title
- Roller Skates
- Author
- Ruth SAwyer
- Illustrator
- Shirley Hughes
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Puffin Books
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- BZDB43 Children's::Children's Fiction; Children; Children's::Puffin. Shirley Hughes Unbranded Ruth SAwyer Roller Skates
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's / Children's Fiction; Children's / Puffin;
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