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1) Like Vanessa
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather) the odds are against her---until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
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