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The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin, is set in a small-town school in Connecticut and follows the story of Maddie, a girl who observes her friend Peggy frequently teasing Wanda Petronski, a Polish immigrant with only one dress. Wanda claims to have 100 dresses at home, which incites further teasing. After Wanda's mysterious disappearance, her classmates discover she is a talented artist through her 100 dress drawings submitted for a school contest. Through subsequent events, Maddie reflects on the consequences of not speaking up against bullying. This book does address bullying experienced by a child partially based on her Polish identity.