Like Vanessa
By: Tami Charles
Contributors: Waites, Channie, narrator; Recorded Books, Inc
Edition: Unabridged.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] /
Number of pages: 30
ISBN-13: 9781501990755
Subjects: Self-confidence; Family problems; Family life; Nineteen eighties; Fiction; Beauty contests; History; Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance; Urban schools; Dysfunctional families; Juvenile fiction; Social Themes; Schools; African American girls; African Americans; JUVENILE FICTION
Description: 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.
Notes: In container (17 cm.).

Title from container.

Compact disc.

Narrated by Channie Waites.

10 years and up.

Accelerated Reader MG 4.9 10 193702