Like Vanessa, Tami Charles
Type
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footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter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
Creator
Subject
- Schools -- Fiction
- Juvenile works
- New Jersey + Newark
- African American girls -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Fiction
- Beauty contests
- JUVENILE FICTION + People & Places -- United States -- African American
- 1900-1999
- Self-confidence
- History
- Williams, Vanessa -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Urban schools
- Urban schools -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Williams, Vanessa
- Nineteen eighties
- 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
- Family problems -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Nineteen eighties -- Juvenile fiction
- Family life -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Fiction
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- African American girls
- Dysfunctional families
Content
Author
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Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification2
- Creator1
- Genre4
- Subject30
- Schools -- Fiction
- Juvenile works
- New Jersey + Newark
- African American girls -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Fiction
- Beauty contests
- JUVENILE FICTION + People & Places -- United States -- African American
- 1900-1999
- Self-confidence
- History
- Williams, Vanessa -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Urban schools
- Urban schools -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Williams, Vanessa
- Nineteen eighties
- 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
- Family problems -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Nineteen eighties -- Juvenile fiction
- Family life -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Fiction
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- African American girls
- Dysfunctional families
- Content1
- Author1
- Other version1
- Mapped to1