Junior Fiction. This is a wonderful very short book with an enduring message. I've read it several times and decided to listen to the audio version on a drive back home this past week. It won a Newbery Honor Medal in 1944 and was inspired by a true story from the author's childhood. Wanda Petronski is a poor girl who only has one dress she wears every day to school. One day she tells the other girls she has one hundred dresses in her closet. The girls know she is lying and start to make fun of her for constantly affirming that she has one hundred dresses. Wanda is missing from school one day and the class finds out her father pulled his children out of the school and moved to another town because his family was being bullied. Two of the girls in Wanda's class feel miserable about it and attempt to make things right. A wonderful story about how we treat others.
Recommend: Yes.
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