Answer:
Coward
Step-by-step explanation:
The Hundred Dresses is a children`s book in which two best friends - Peggy and Maddie are going to school with a girl called Wanda Petronski. Wanda is a little bit different than others as she always wears the same dress to school and her name is a little bit unusual since it origins from Poland. Although she wears the same dress every day, she tells children at school that she has a hundred of them at home. Peggy keeps asking her about the dresses since she can not understand why would Wanda lie about such a thing. All classmates teased her and Maddie, who was also poor, did not have the courage to say to Peggy to stop asking about the dresses as she could be the next target for mockery. In the meantime, there was a school contest for the best drawing and Wanda won it with her one hundred drawings of beautiful dresses. Her family moved from the city, so she was not there when this happened. Her father sent a letter which was read by the teacher. At that moment, Maddie felt like a coward for not confronting Peggy and other classmates but stayed silent. This caused her to decide that she will not be silent about harassment ever again.