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The Hundred Dresses
Classic children's fiction
The Hundred Dresses
Wanda Petronski claims to own one hundred dresses even though she wears the same faded blue dress to school each day. Classmates mock her unusual name and insist the dresses are imaginary, while Maddie quietly struggles with her failure to stop the teasing. Wanda's drawings eventually reveal both her talent and the cost of the cruelty around her. Concise, compassionate, and serious, this classroom classic suits family discussion about bullying, regret, empathy, and choosing courage before harm becomes permanent.
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