Like vanessa [electronic resource]. Tami Charles.
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.
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- ISBN: 9781501991035
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (8 audio files) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: Prince Frederick : Recorded Books, 2018.
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- General Note:
- Unabridged.
- Participant or Performer Note:
- Narrator: Channie Waites.
- Target Audience Note:
- Text Difficulty 3730 Lexile.
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- Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser.
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