The Hundred Dresses
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · September 1, 2004
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- Who it’s for
- A gentle school story makes kindness, acceptance, and speaking up feel worth thinking about.
- Themes
- Kindness and acceptance, Bullying and bystanders, Courage to speak up
- Genres
- Bullying, Friendship, School Stories
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This Newbery Honor classic, illustrated by a Caldecott Medalist, is a beautifully written tribute to the power of kindness, acceptance, and standing up for what's right. Wanda Petronski is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. She claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn’t.
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When Wanda is pulled out of school one day, the class feels terrible, and classmate Maddie decides that she is "never going to stand by and say nothing again." A timeless, gentle tale about bullies, bystanders, and having the courage to speak up.
Quiet Courage
A gentle school story makes kindness, acceptance, and speaking up feel worth thinking about.
Come here for
- A thoughtful look at bullying and the classmates who witness it
- A classic tale about choosing not to stand by
Expect
- Gentle storytelling with a serious moral thread
- A lingering question about when to speak up
Where it sits
| Bullying | 91% |
|---|---|
| Friendship | 31% |
| School Stories | 25% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- The Classics
- Girls & Young Women
- School Stories
- Friendship
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- Prejudice & Racism
- Bullying
- Clothing & Dress-Up
- Authors
- Eleanor Estes
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- September 1, 2004
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Kindness and acceptance · Bullying and bystanders · Courage to speak up
- Reading lane
- The Classics