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Like Vanessa
- Title
- Like Vanessa / Tami Charles.
- Author
- Charles, Tami
- Publication
- Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2018]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc D 18-531 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Details
- 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 the odds are against her until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
- Subject
- Williams, Vanessa > Juvenile fiction
- Williams, Vanessa
- 1900-1999
- African American girls > New Jersey > Newark > Juvenile fiction
- Beauty contests > Juvenile fiction
- Dysfunctional families > New Jersey > Newark > Juvenile fiction
- Urban schools > New Jersey > Newark > Juvenile fiction
- Self-confidence > Juvenile fiction
- Nineteen eighties > Juvenile fiction
- African American girls
- Beauty contests
- Dysfunctional families
- Nineteen eighties
- Self-confidence
- Urban schools
- Newark (N.J.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction
- New Jersey > Newark
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Note
- "A Junior Library Guild selection"--Jacket back.
- Awards (note)
- Junior Library Guild selection.
- Call Number
- Sc D 18-531
- ISBN
- 9781580897778
- 1580897770
- 9781632896070 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2016053961
- OCLC
- 986523091
- Author
- Charles, Tami, author.
- Title
- Like Vanessa / Tami Charles.
- Publisher
- Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Study Program
- Accelerated Reader Level 4.9.
- Awards
- Junior Library Guild selection.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 18-531