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Nick
Nov 02, 2017 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
I don't like most Newbery winners. Frankly, I don't know what the awards committee was thinking, half the time, especially on older titles.
For The Hundred Dresses, though, it was a fine combination of a readable book and a topic which was needed as much now as it was then.
The story is about how a little girl named Wanda is bullied by the other girls at her school. It starts out as a jokey response to something odd that the little girl has said. She's seemingly very poor, and wears the same dress
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Beth
Jun 21, 2014 rated it really liked it
One of my faves.
Lisa Yee
Apr 09, 2008 rated it it was amazing