Like Vanessa /
Charles, Tami,
Like Vanessa / Tami Charles. - 284 pages ; 22 cm
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footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
9781580897778 1580897770
Random House Distribution childrens, 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157, (212)7828741 SAN 201-3975
2016053961
Williams, Vanessa--Juvenile fiction.
African American girls--New Jersey--Newark--Juvenile fiction.
Beauty contests--Juvenile fiction.
Dysfunctional families--New Jersey--Newark--Juvenile fiction.
Family problems--Fiction.
Families--New Jersey--Newark--Juvenile fiction.
Family life--New Jersey--Newark--Fiction.
Urban schools--New Jersey--Newark--Juvenile fiction.
Self-confidence--Juvenile fiction.
Nineteen eighties--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Schools--Juvenile fiction.
Newark (N.J.)--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
Historical fiction.
Like Vanessa / Tami Charles. - 284 pages ; 22 cm
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footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
9781580897778 1580897770
Random House Distribution childrens, 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157, (212)7828741 SAN 201-3975
2016053961
Williams, Vanessa--Juvenile fiction.
African American girls--New Jersey--Newark--Juvenile fiction.
Beauty contests--Juvenile fiction.
Dysfunctional families--New Jersey--Newark--Juvenile fiction.
Family problems--Fiction.
Families--New Jersey--Newark--Juvenile fiction.
Family life--New Jersey--Newark--Fiction.
Urban schools--New Jersey--Newark--Juvenile fiction.
Self-confidence--Juvenile fiction.
Nineteen eighties--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Schools--Juvenile fiction.
Newark (N.J.)--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
Historical fiction.