Characters
What is Wanda's last name?
Petronski
Where does Wanda live?
Boggin Heights
Why does Wanda's family move away?
The family doesn't want to be teased anymore.
How does Maddie discover that Wanda had liked her?
Who invented the dresses game?
Peggy
How is Wanda's house described?
As shabby but clean.
What does Wanda give Maddie for Christmas?
A drawing of a dress.
How does Maddie try to make it up to Wanda?
Maddie wrote a friendly letter to Wanda.
Who wins the girls' drawing contest?
Wanda
What was Wanda's room number in school?
What lesson does Maddie learn by the end of the story?
Maddie learns that she'll never stand by and do nothing if someone is being picked on.
Why did Maddie and Peggy go to Boggin Heights?
They went to see if Wanda has moved away yet and to tell her that she won the drawing contest.
What is Wanda's nationality? (i.e. _____-American)
Polish
Where did the girls do a lot of teasing?
school playground
Why is Wanda bullied by the girls?
She is different from the other kids.
What are the girls and boys supposed to design for the drawing and color contest?
Dresses and motorboats.
Who feels guilty and remorse for teasing Wanda?
Maddie
Where do the girls sometimes wait for Wanda to tease her?
streets on the way to school
Why don't the other girls trust Wanda?
What month was it when Wanda first told the other girls about her hundred dresses?
October