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Like Vanessa

Charles, Tami (author.).

Summary: It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but the odds are against her until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.

Item details

  • ISBN: 9781580897778
  • ISBN: 1580897770
  • ISBN: 9781632896070
  • ISBN: 9781580898997
  • ISBN: 1580898998
  • Physical Description: print
    284 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2018]

Contents / Notes

General Note:
"A Junior Library Guild selection"--Jacket back.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.9 10.0 Accelerated Reader Quiz #193702.
Reading Counts 6-8 4.5 15 72748.
Lexile 730L.
Awards Note:
Junior Library Guild selection.
Subject: Williams, Vanessa Juvenile fiction
African American girls New Jersey Newark Juvenile fiction
Beauty contests Juvenile fiction
Dysfunctional families New Jersey Newark Juvenile fiction
Urban schools New Jersey Newark Juvenile fiction
Self-confidence Juvenile fiction
Nineteen eighties Juvenile fiction
Newark (N.J.) History 20th century Juvenile fiction
Williams, Vanessa Fiction
African Americans Fiction
Beauty contests Fiction
Family problems Fiction
Family life New Jersey Newark Fiction
Schools Fiction
Self-confidence Fiction
Newark (N.J.) History 20th century Fiction
Filles noires américaines New Jersey Newark Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
Concours de beauté Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
Familles inadaptées New Jersey Newark Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
Écoles urbaines New Jersey Newark Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
Confiance en soi Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
Années quatre-vingt (Vingtième siècle) Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
JUVENILE FICTION People & Places United States African American
Williams, Vanessa
Beauty contests Juvenile fiction
African American girls New Jersey Juvenile fiction
Dysfunctional families New Jersey Juvenile fiction
Urban schools New Jersey Juvenile fiction
Self-confidence Juvenile fiction
Nineteen eighties Juvenile fiction
Family problems Juvenile fiction
Family life New Jersey Juvenile fiction
Newark (N.J.) History 20th century
Williams, Vanessa
African American girls
Beauty contests
Dysfunctional families
Nineteen eighties
Self-confidence
Urban schools
New Jersey Newark
Williams, Vanessa Fiction
Genre: Children's stories.
Historical fiction.
Junior.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
History.
Juvenile works.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
School stories.

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  • 5 out of 5 copies are currently available at West Georgia Regional Library System.

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