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The Hundred Dresses
Wanda Petronski, who speaks in broken English and always wears the same sparkling clean dress to school each day, brags to the other girls that she has a hundred dresses at home. Wanda is laughed at and teased by the other girls, and she and her family move away. Only then do the girls find Wanda's beautifully drawn pictures of one hundred dresses.- Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1945 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780152373740
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Rabbit Hill
The excitement among the wild creatures is contagious as Little Georgie enthusiastically tells every one of them that new folks are coming to the old farmhouse. All of the animals anxiously await the day the newcomers will arrive, afraid they might be the kind who have guns or dogs or even poison.- Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1945 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780670586752
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The Silver Pencil
After her father's sudden death, Janet and her mother begin a series of moves that take them from Trinidad, to England, to the United States, and then to Nova Scotia. Along the way, Janet holds fast to the silver pencil her father gave her, finding that writing is a solace.- Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1945 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780140347920