Like Vanessa, Tami Charles
Type
Label
Like Vanessa, Tami Charles
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Like Vanessa
Oclc number
986523091
Responsibility statement
Tami Charles
resource.studyProgramName
Accelerated Reader AR, MG, 4.9, 10.0, Accelerated Reader Quiz #193702.Reading Counts, 6-8, 4.5, 15, 72748.Lexile, 730L.
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
Target audience
pre adolescent
Creator
Subject
- Schools -- Fiction
- Écoles urbaines -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Concours de beauté -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Urban schools -- New Jersey -- Juvenile fiction
- African American girls -- New Jersey -- Juvenile fiction
- Filles noires américaines -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- African American girls -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Family life -- New Jersey -- Juvenile fiction
- Williams, Vanessa -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Urban schools -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Williams, Vanessa
- Williams, Vanessa -- Juvenile fiction
- Self-confidence -- Juvenile fiction
- Self-confidence -- Fiction
- Dysfunctional families -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Beauty contests -- Juvenile fiction
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Beauty contests -- Fiction
- Children's stories
- Dysfunctional families -- New Jersey -- Juvenile fiction
- Family problems -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century
- Nineteen eighties -- Juvenile fiction
- Années quatre-vingt (Vingtième siècle) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Confiance en soi -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Family problems -- Juvenile fiction
- Family life -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Fiction
- Familles inadaptées -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Junior
Content
Author
Other version
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Incoming Resources
- Has instance2
Outgoing Resources
- Creator1
- Genre3
- Subject32
- Schools -- Fiction
- Écoles urbaines -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Concours de beauté -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Urban schools -- New Jersey -- Juvenile fiction
- African American girls -- New Jersey -- Juvenile fiction
- Filles noires américaines -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- African American girls -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Family life -- New Jersey -- Juvenile fiction
- Williams, Vanessa -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Urban schools -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Williams, Vanessa
- Williams, Vanessa -- Juvenile fiction
- Self-confidence -- Juvenile fiction
- Self-confidence -- Fiction
- Dysfunctional families -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Beauty contests -- Juvenile fiction
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Beauty contests -- Fiction
- Children's stories
- Dysfunctional families -- New Jersey -- Juvenile fiction
- Family problems -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century
- Nineteen eighties -- Juvenile fiction
- Années quatre-vingt (Vingtième siècle) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Confiance en soi -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Family problems -- Juvenile fiction
- Family life -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Fiction
- Familles inadaptées -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Junior
- Content1
- Author1
- Other version1
- Mapped to1