The hundred dresses

Wanda Petronski is different from all the other girls in Room 13. Every day she wears the same faded blue dress to school, and every day she tells about her hundred dresses at home. Her classmates joke about her imaginary clothes -- until they learn the wonderful secret of the dresses.

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Main Author: Estes, Eleanor, 1906-1988
Other Authors: Moore, Christina (Narrator)
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Language:English
Published: Prince Frederick : Recorded Books Inc., 2008.
Edition:Unabridged.
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Summary:Wanda Petronski is different from all the other girls in Room 13. Every day she wears the same faded blue dress to school, and every day she tells about her hundred dresses at home. Her classmates joke about her imaginary clothes -- until they learn the wonderful secret of the dresses.
Item Description:Unabridged.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 audio file) : digital
Playing Time:00:54:59
Format:Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 25777 KB).
Audience:Text Difficulty 4 - Text Difficulty 5
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ISBN:9781449875992
Author Notes:Eleanor Estes was born in West Haven, Connecticut on May 9, 1906. She graduated from the Pratt Institute Library School and worked as a children's librarian in branches of the New York Public Library system. Her first book, The Moffats, was published in 1941. Her other works include The Hundred Dresses and Ginger Pye, which won a John Newbery Medal for the most distinguished children's book in 1952. She also wrote a single adult novel entitled The Echoing Green. She died of complications following a stroke on July 15, 1988 at the age of 82.

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