Book
The Hundred Dresses
- Published
- 1945
- Genre
- Fiction
- Publisher
- Anne Troy and Phyllis Green
- Pages
- 80
- Words
- 7329
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42369.The_Hundred_Dresses?ac=1&from_search=true
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 5.4
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile
- 870L
- Guided reading level
- P
- Suggested reading age
- ages 8–10
- Ambleside year
- Years 2–3 · ages 7–11
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
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 Wanda’s classmates, ultimately decides that she is "never going to stand by and say nothing again."
Collections
Beautiful Feet · TCtL — Teaching Character through LiteratureMensa Kids · K-3The Good & The Beautiful · 5
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9781561376810
- ISBN-10
- 1561376817
Tags
Award Winners-Newbery HonorBeautiful FeetCommunity Life-SchoolMensa KidsPolandRecommended Reading-California Recommended Lit., English, 3-5The Good & The Beautiful