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All I could think about this story was Wow! what an usual story! Reena and her family move to Maine after living in a big city. They adjust to living in the country, and Reena and her brother Luke find themselves helping their cranky, scary neighbor, Mrs. Falala.
Wanda Petronski comes to school every day in a faded blue dress, and the kids make fun of her clothes, including Maddy and Peggy. Everyday, the girls ask Wanda about her dresses. Wanda shyly tells them about a certain dress than tells them that she had a hundred dresses at home.
This is a wonderful biography of the life of Temple Grandin. Written in poem form, the rhyming words make it fun to read aloud. It highlights how different she was from other children while she was growing up. But it also highlights how similar she was too.
