title: Wanda's First Day
author:  Mark Sperring 
description: PreSchool-Grade 1Wanda, a young witch, is nervous about her first day of school. When she enters her classroom, she notices that all of the other girls have wands and are wearing colorful dresses; Wanda has a broomstick and is wearing black. She soon realizes that she is the only witch in a school of fairies. She asks her teacher about it, and Miss Dewdrop assures her that all youngsters feel a bit uncomfortable on their first day. Wanda enjoys herself even though her projects turn out differently from those of the other children. After seeing some students from another school fly by the window (all witches with one lone fairy), Wanda again meekly questions her teacher and Miss Dewdrop reassures her that as long as she had fun, she is definitely in the right place. Readers will be pleasantly surprised when they discover that Wanda looks forward to returning the next day. The candy-colored illustrations are full of fairyland details: shiny stars, glittering fairy dust, and delicate flowers. With her frizzy hair and black dress, Wanda stands out among her neatly coifed, pastel-clad classmates. Although this book will appeal to fans of fairies and princesses, parents wishing to lessen first-day-of-school jitters may want to look elsewhere.<i>Wendy Woodfill, Hennepin County Library, Minnetonka, MN</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: TABLE OF CONTENTS
  1. WANDA
  2. THE DRESSES GAME
  3. A BRIGHT BLUE DAY
  4. THE CONTEST
  5. THE HUNDRED DRESSES
  6. UP ON BOGGINS HEIGHTS
  7. THE LETTER TO ROOM 13
  
  1. WANDA
  TODAY, Monday, Wanda Petronski was not in tier seat. But nobody,
  not even Peggy and Madeline, the girls who started all the fun, noticed her
  absence. Usually Wanda sat m the next to the last seat in the last row in
  Room 13. She sat in the corner of the room where the rough boys who did
  not make good marks on their report cards sat; the corner of the room where
  there was most scuffling of feet, most roars of laughter when anything
  funny was said, and most mud and dirt on the floor.
  Wanda did not sit there because she was rough and noisy. On the
  contrary she was very quiet and rarely said anything at all. And nobody had
  ever heard her laugh out loud. Sometimes she twisted her mouth into a
  crooked sort of smile, but that was all.
  Nobody knew exactly why Wanda sat in that seat unless it was because
  she came all the way from Bo