Like Vanessa, Tami Charles
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Like Vanessa, Tami Charles
Language
eng
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Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Like Vanessa
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dictionaries
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Tami Charles
Summary
Middle graders will laugh and cry with thirteen-year-old Vanessa Martin as she tries to be like Vanessa Williams, the first black Miss America. In this semi-autobiographical debut novel set in 1983, Vanessa Martin's real-life reality of living with family in public housing in Newark, New Jersey is a far cry from the glamorous Miss America stage. She struggles with a mother she barely remembers, a grandfather dealing with addiction and her own battle with self-confidence. But when a new teacher at school coordinates a beauty pageant and convinces Vanessa to enter, Vanessa's view of her own world begins to change. Vanessa discovers that her own self-worth is more than the scores of her talent performance and her interview answers, and that she doesn't need a crown to be comfortable in her own skin and see her own true beauty
Target audience
juvenile
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- African American girls -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Urban schools -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Williams, Vanessa -- Juvenile fiction
- Self-confidence -- Juvenile fiction
- Dysfunctional families -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Electronic books
- Beauty contests -- Juvenile fiction
- Nineteen eighties -- Juvenile fiction
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
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- African American girls -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Urban schools -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Williams, Vanessa -- Juvenile fiction
- Self-confidence -- Juvenile fiction
- Dysfunctional families -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Electronic books
- Beauty contests -- Juvenile fiction
- Nineteen eighties -- Juvenile fiction
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Content1
- Author1
- Is Derivative Of1