# The Hundred Dresses

**Author:** Eleanor Estes
**Lexile:** 870L
**Grade range:** Grades 3–5
**Age range:** 8–11
**First published:** 1944
**Page count:** 80
**Genre:** Middle Grade Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780152052607`
**ISBN-10:** `0152052607`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-hundred-dresses
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Wanda Petronski, a poor Polish-immigrant girl, is teased by classmates for claiming to own a hundred dresses — until they discover what she meant. Estes's Newbery Honor novella is a staple of 3rd-5th grade anti-bullying units.

## Themes

- bullying
- immigrant experience
- regret
- compassion
- standing up

## Content notes

- bullying
- ethnic stereotyping

Common Sense Media age recommendation: 8+

## Where this book is assigned

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · 3rd grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B — anti-bullying exemplar](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)
- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 4-5 Newbery Honor](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)

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