Registration is open for the next Acton Memorial Library 3/4 grade Book Discussion Group. Readers can join us on March 9 @ 4:30pm OR March 10 @ 2:00 pm to discuss The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes. Attached are a flyer and video about the program.
Here's a little information about the book:
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."