TY  - BOOK
AU  - Estes,Eleanor
AU  - Slobodkin,Louis
TI  - The hundred dresses
SN  - 0152051708
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin Harcout
KW  - Polish Americans
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Bullying
KW  - Fashion design
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Race discrimination
KW  - Social isolation
KW  - Fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Wanda -- The Dresses Game -- A Bright Blue Day -- The Contest -- The Hundred Dresses -- Up on Boggins Heights -- The Letter to Room 13; Ages 6 to 10; Accelerated Reader; MG; 5.4; 1.0; 42
N2  - In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson. Includes a note from the author's daughter, Helena Estes; "Wanda wears the same faded blue dress to school every day -- yet she says she has one hundred beautiful dresses at home, "all lined up." The other girls don't believe it, and when Peggy starts a daily game of teasing Wanda about the hundred dresses, everyone joins in. Maddie, Peggy's best friend, goes along with the game , but she secretly wonders whether she can find the courage to speak up in Wanda's defense. It's not until Wanda fails to come to school one day that her classmates learn the truth about the hundred dresses -- and Maddie and Peggy learn the meaning of kindness and generosity of spirit. Eleanor Estes's heartfelt story, a Newberry Honor Book and a beloved classic for more than sixty years, offers readers of all ages a timeless message of compassion and understanding"--Back cover
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