Like Vanessa, Tami Charles
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Label
Like Vanessa, Tami Charles
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Like Vanessa
Oclc number
986523091
Responsibility statement
Tami Charles
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footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter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
pre adolescent
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Genre
Subject
- Schools -- Fiction
- African American girls -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Fiction
- Urban schools -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Fiction
- Williams, Vanessa -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Nineteen eighties -- Fiction
- Dysfunctional families -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Fiction
- Self-confidence -- Fiction
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Beauty contests -- Fiction
- Family problems -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Family life -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Fiction
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- Classification2
- Creator1
- Genre1
- Subject13
- Schools -- Fiction
- African American girls -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Fiction
- Urban schools -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Fiction
- Williams, Vanessa -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Nineteen eighties -- Fiction
- Dysfunctional families -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Fiction
- Self-confidence -- Fiction
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Beauty contests -- Fiction
- Family problems -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Family life -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Fiction
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- Author1
- Other version1
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