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Genre/Form: | Picture books children's books picture books Cloth case bindings book jackets School fiction Fiction Juvenile works Livres d'images Juvenile fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Estes, Eleanor, 1906-1988. Hundred dresses (OCoLC)1142534872 |
Material Type: | Elementary and junior high school, Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Eleanor Estes; Louis Slobodkin |
ISBN: | 0152373748 9780152373740 9780152051709 0152051708 |
OCLC Number: | 174134 |
Awards: | Newbery Honor Book, 1945. |
Target Audience: | 870 |
Description: | 80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Wanda -- The dresses game -- A bright blue day -- The contest -- The hundred dresses -- Up on Boggins heights -- The letter to room 13. |
Responsibility: | Eleanor Estes ; illustrated by Louis Slobodkin. |
Abstract:
"Eleanor Estes's The Hundred Dresses won a Newbery Honor in 1945 and has never been out of print since. At the heart of the story is Wanda Petronski, a Polish girl in a Connecticut school who is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. Wanda claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn't and bullies her mercilessly. The class feels terrible when Wanda is pulled out of the school, but by that time it's too late for apologies. Maddie, one of Wandt's classmates, ultimately decides that she is "never going to stand by and say nothing again."--Goodreads.
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