# Roller Skates

**Author:** Ruth Sawyer
**Grade range:** Grades 4–7
**Age range:** 9–12
**First published:** 1923
**Page count:** 186
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780808538028`
**ISBN-10:** `0808538020`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/roller-skates
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

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.

## Themes

- roller skating
- newbery medal
- friendship
- neighborliness

## Where this book is assigned

### Newbery Medal

- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: Newbery Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1937 Newbery Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal)
- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: Newbery Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1937 Newbery Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal)
- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: Newbery Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1937 Newbery Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal)
- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: Newbery Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1937 Newbery Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal)

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