Bibliograph

Like Vanessa, Tami Charles

Type

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Label

Like Vanessa, Tami Charles

Language

eng

Intended audience

730L, Lexile

Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

Like Vanessa

Medium

sound recording audiobook CD

Responsibility statement

Tami Charles

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, MG, 4.9, 10, 193702

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footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter

Target audience

juvenile

Classification