01787cam a2200409 i 4500 422590994 TxAuBib 20200331120000.0 170502s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016053961 9781580897778 1580897770 (OCoLC)986523091 TxAuBib rda Charles, Tami. Like Vanessa / Tami Charles. Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2018] 284 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A Junior Library Guild selection"--Jacket back. 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 the odds are against her until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter. Accelerated Reader Level 4.9. Lexile 730L. 20200331. Junior Library Guild selection. Williams, Vanessa Juvenile fiction. African American girls New Jersey Newark Juvenile fiction. Beauty contests Juvenile fiction. Dysfunctional families New Jersey Newark Juvenile fiction. Urban schools New Jersey Newark Juvenile fiction. Self-confidence Juvenile fiction. Nineteen eighties Juvenile fiction. Newark (N.J) History 20th century Juvenile fiction. Historical fiction.