by Eleanor Estes
illustrated by Louis Slobodkin
PRMS paperback 80 pages
genre: children's realistic fiction, Newbery Honor book
Janet Aquino was shocked last fall when I admitted I had never read this book. Since I was helping some of her students, I read it. Wanda Petronski is the odd girl who lives in Boggins Heights and wears the same dress every day to school. Maddie is the narrator of the story. Peggy is her best friend and the chief tormentor of poor Wanda. As they ask her questions, Wanda says that she has a hundred dresses at home in her closet. Only when she doesn't show up for school one day do they try to truly learn more about Wanda. Short, with good conversation points. Not sure how the boys react to having to read this . . .
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