Roller Skates
by Ruth Sawyer
Middle grade · ages 8–12 · grades 3–7 · 820L · 1 pages · 2001
Why we'd hand it over
A Newbery winner that still reads as alive—Lucinda's rambles through 1890s NYC are episodic but tied together by her genuine attention to people, and Sawyer's language is rich enough that kids who stretch into it come out changed.