Book
2 of 2 Copies Available
- CENTRAL: Children's Collection
- OSHTEMO: Children's Collection
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Call Number
- J CHAR (CEN, OSH)
Publication Information
Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2018]
Physical 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footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
Subjects
- 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 Americans > Fiction.
- Beauty contests > Fiction.
- Family problems > Fiction.
- Family life > New Jersey > Newark > Fiction.
- Schools > Fiction.
- Self-confidence > Fiction.
- Newark (N.J.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
- Newark (N.J.) > History > 20th century > Fiction.
- Williams, Vanessa > Juvenile fiction.
- Williams, Vanessa > Fiction.