Wanda Petronski

Wanda Petronski is a Polish girl who has shifted to America from Poland with her parents. Wanda posses a Polish heritage. Wanda is a name difficult to pronounce. She belongs to a very poor family and lives in the poor area of town with her brother and father upon Boggins Heights. She is very shy and quiet. She does not talk to anyone and hardly speaks anything in class or laughs. She has no friends and sits in the last row of the class with some naughty boys so that nobody notices her. She wears the same faded blue dress every day which is not ironed but clean. Everybody teases her in class for her dress and shoes every day. In anger, she claims of having a hundred dresses and sixty pairs of shoes at home. She is very determined and shows her determination in the drawing competition by displaying a hundred sketches of dresses she claims to own. Each of them is so beautiful, that she wins the competition and surpasses Peggy. Wanda posses a great capacity for forgiveness and extending friendship to Maddie and Peggy. Everybody in the class claps for her in joy.