Like Vanessa

The Resource Like Vanessa
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Like Vanessa
Statement of responsibility
Tami Charles
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Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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, by reluctantly entering her own beauty pageant. 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 an incarcerated 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
Cataloging source
RECBC
Dewey number
813.6
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not applicable
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not applicable
Intended audience
10 years and up
Literary text for sound recordings
other
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not applicable
PerformerNote
Narrated by Channie Waites
Target audience
primary
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