Like Vanessa / Tami Charles.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 284 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781580897778
- 1580897770
- 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
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Fiction | Charles Tami | Available | 33111008626398 | ||||
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
"It's such an honor to be the focal point of this wonderful book! Without a doubt, it will be inspiring to a new generation of young, talented girls well on their way to promising careers." --Vanessa Williams, Multi-Platinum Recording Artist, New York Times Best-Selling Author, Fashion Designer and star of Television, Film and the Broadway Stage
" Like Vanessa has it all and then some! Gritty, poetic, emotionally true, Tami Charles wrings out every hope, every stumble and every triumph of a girl on an uneasy road to possessing her self, her strength and her own beauty. An unforgettable debut." --Rita Williams-Garcia, author of One Crazy Summer and P.S. Be Eleven
♦"This debut is a treasure- a gift to every middle school girl who ever felt unpretty, unloved, and trapped by her circumstances."- Kirkus Reviews STARRED REVIEW
♦"Charles evades the cliches and imbues Vanessa with an inner life that's so real and personal it's hard to deny the charm, heartbreak, and triumph of her story. . . . Superb."- Booklist STARRED REVIEW
♦" Like Vanessa is an emotionally potent, engaging young adult story with a heroine whom it is impossible not to root for. The life lessons that Nessy learns are relevant and worthwhile for everyone."- Foreword Reviews STARRED REVIEW
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.