Status
Available
Call number
DDC/MDS
JF EST |
Publication
Harcourt Children's Books (1944), Edition: First, 88 pages
Original publication date
1944
Description
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 Wanda?s classmates, ultimately decides that she is "never going to stand by and say nothing again."
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Language
ISBN
0152373748 / 9780152373740
Awards
Newbery Medal (Honor Book — 1945)
Read Aloud Indiana Book Award (Primary — 1998)