Title:
Like Vanessa / Tami Charles.
ISBN:
9781580897778
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Publication Information:
Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2018]
Physical 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footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader MG 4.9 10 193702
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Electronic Access:
9781434219123
Audience:
730L Lexile
OCLC Number:
ocn986523091
Availability:
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