Title Like Vanessa / Tami Charles. [Boundless electronic resource]

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Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2018]

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Description	1 online resource.
Note	Companion to: Becoming Beatriz.
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
Study Program	Accelerated Reader MG 4.9 10 10 193702
System Details	Requires Boundless App.
Subject	Williams, Vanessa -- Juvenile fiction.
	Williams, Vanessa -- 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.
	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 -- Juvenile fiction.
	Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genre	Historical fiction.
Other Form:	Print version: Charles, Tami, author. Like Vanessa Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2018] 9781580897778 (DLC) 2016053961
ISBN	9781632896070
	1632896079

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