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Author Charles, Tami, author.

Title Like Vanessa / Tami Charles.

Publication Info. Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2018]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1849043~S1
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Juvenile Fiction  J CHARLES    AVAILABLE
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Description 284 pages ; 22 cm
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.
Audience 730L Lexile
Note 730L Lexile
Study Program Accelerated Reader MG 4.9 10 193702
Note Accelerated Reader MG 4.9 10 193702
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.
Genre Historical fiction.
ISBN 9781580897778 (reinforced for library use)
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