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BEFORE YOU READ
BEFORE YOU READ How do we judge the people around us by their money, wealthand possessions? Or is there something of more enduring valueto look for in a person? This story is a sensitive account of how a poor young girl isjudged by her classmates. Wanda Petronski is a young Polishgirl who goes to school with other American children in an Americantown. These other children see Wanda as different in manyways. Can you guess how they treat her? Read the information in the box below. Find out more about thiscommunity (or about a related topic) from an encyclopedia, orthe Internet. The Polish-American Communityin the United StatesThe first Polish immigrants arrived in America in 1608, butthe largest wave of Polish immigration occurred in the earlytwentieth century, when more than one million Poles migratedto the United States.
“You’d look like a Christmas tree in that,” the girls had said in pretended admiration. Thinking about Wanda and her hundred dresses all lined up in the closet, Maddie began to wonder who was going to win the drawing and colouring contest. For girls, this contest consisted of designing dresses and for boys, of designing motorboats.
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