Bibliograph

Like Vanessa, Tami Charles

Type

Label

Like Vanessa, Tami Charles

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Like Vanessa

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

986788844

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footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, secretly gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter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

Classification

Creator