Like Vanessa
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Like Vanessa
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The work Like Vanessa represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Fulton County Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Label
- Like Vanessa
- Statement of responsibility
- Tami Charles
- Subject
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- trueWilliams, Vanessa
- Nineteen eighties
- Nineteen eighties -- Juvenile fiction
- trueRealistic fiction
- Schools -- Fiction
- trueSelf-acceptance
- Self-confidence
- Self-confidence -- Fiction
- Self-confidence -- Juvenile fiction
- trueSelf-esteem
- trueThirteen-year-old girls
- Urban schools
- Urban schools -- New Jersey | Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Williams, Vanessa
- Williams, Vanessa -- Fiction
- Williams, Vanessa -- Juvenile fiction
- 1900-1999
- true1980s -- 1980 -- 1989
- trueAfrican American fiction
- African American girls
- African American girls -- New Jersey | Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- trueAfrican American teenage girls
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Beauty contests
- trueBeauty contests
- Beauty contests -- Fiction
- Beauty contests -- Juvenile fiction
- trueDysfunctional families
- Dysfunctional families
- Dysfunctional families -- New Jersey | Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Family life -- New Jersey | Newark -- Fiction
- Family problems -- Fiction
- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- History
- trueInner city schools
- trueInsecurity (Psychology)
- Juvenile works
- trueMiss America Pageant
- trueMother-separated children
- New Jersey -- Newark
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- trueNewark, New Jersey
- Language
- eng
- 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footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter
- Cataloging source
- NJQ/DLC
- Dewey number
- 813.6
- Index
- no index present
- Intended audience
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- 730
- 730L
- Intended audience source
-
- Lexile
- Lexile
- LC call number
- PZ7.1.C4915
- LC item number
- Li 2018
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
- 730
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel
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- 5
- 8
- Target audience
- juvenile
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