![]() ![]() "That's what I'd call a perfectly elegant idea!" Background "How would you like to stay always ten?" she muses. With Lucinda's parents coming back from Italy, she realizes everything is changing, so she skates to the park one last time. Later her uncle introduces her to Shakespeare's tragedies, and she experiences her own when two of her friends die. ![]() Later Lucinda reads Shakespeare with her favorite uncle and is inspired to put on a puppet production of The Tempest.īut the cold and snow of winter keep her cooped up indoors, and eventually a restless Lucinda acts out and gets sent home from school in disgrace. In return Tony takes her for a city picnic where they meet a rag-and-bone man. ![]() Lucinda enlists Officer M'Gonegal to stop the bullies who knock down Tony's father's fruit-stand and steal the fruit. The first friend of her own age is Tony Coppino, son of an Italian fruit stand owner. Gilligan the hansom cab driver and Patrolman M'Gonegal. ![]() Living with them Lucinda experiences unprecedented freedom, exploring the city on roller skates and making friends with all types of people. Miss Peters, a teacher, is "a person of great understanding, no nonsense, and no interference." Miss Nettie is shy and soft-hearted. The narrator's diaries help her remember the details of 10-year-old Lucinda's "orphanage," as she calls it. Roller Skates opens with the narrator remembering back to a special year in the 1890s, when young Lucinda Wyman arrives at the Misses Peters' home in New York City the two ladies will care for her during the year of Lucinda's parents' trip to Italy. It is a fictionalized account of one year of Sawyer's life. Roller Skates is a book by Ruth Sawyer that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1937. ![]()
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