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