4B3 THE HUNDRED DRESSES

The story tells about a girl named Wanda Petronski. Wanda is a quiet little girl and wears the same blue dress everyday to school and the same shabby shoes unlike Peggy, a very popular student in school, who seemed to have a lot of dresses. Peggie has another friend named Maddie. Peggie’s mom would hand down Peggie’s clothes to Maddie and Maddie’s mom would painstakingly renovate the dress so the students in room 13 will not be able to identify that the dress is originally Peggy’s. The two of them would regularly ask Wanda how many dresses she got and the girl would always say she got 100 dresses all lined up in her closet. Of course, nobody believes that since they see same dress worn everyday by Wanda, shabby but clean.
One day, there was a contest in school. The children were encouraged to submit their own drawings of dresses. On the day of the announcement of winners, Peggy was there all along with her friend Maddie, confident that she’s going to win it. But they were surprised to see that Wanda was the winner. All her 100 drawings of dresses were all lined up on the wall of Room 13. After that, the teacher had another announcement. Wanda’s father had sent a letter. The letter states they have all gone to the big city and that his children, Wanda and Jake will not be able to attend school anymore. Maddie was guilt –stricken. Although, she didn’t totally agree with Peggy’s act of making fun with Wanda, she had never stood up for her.
After the class, the two decided to go and visit Wanda’s house but when they came there, it was empty.
Months passed by and one day, the teacher received a letter from Wanda stating she has now new 100 dresses all lined up in her closet. And that she also gives the two drawings of dresses to Maddie and Peggy. The green one is for Peggy and the blue one is for Maddie. When the two arrived at home, Maddie noticed the girls wearing the blue and green dresses in the picture were actually Maddie and Peggy. They realized that Wanda had really liked them from the very beginning.

T. Shulamite