Hundred Dresses Book Review

(Spoiler alert!!)

'The Hundred Dresses' is a book in which a girl named Wanda Petronski shifts to a new village with her father and her brother. she starts attending a new school there. She lives in the more remote part of the village which people are scared of and avoid going to. 

One day as she enters the school, Wanda spots a crowd of girls marveling at a girl's new red dress. Eager to make friend and join the fun, Wanda says to Peggy, the most popular girl in their group “I’ve got a hundred dresses in my home, all lined up in my closet”.  As expected, no one believes her - they mock her and ask her as to why then she just wears the same simple blue dress to school every day ? However, her claim spreads like wildfire in the small school and has tongues wagging and everyone talking.

Peggy’s friend Maddie does not like this. She feel’s guilty and wants to befriend Wanda, but Wanda is absent for a few days so she does not get the chance. 

When Wanda is announced the winner of a art competition for drawing 100 drawings of different dresses but does not show up to collect the award, a letter comes from the head of the school.

Wanda has left the school and is moving to another village.

 Can Maddie still befriend and be on good terms with Wanda?

Read this beautifully  woven  tale to find out:)

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