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207622
Becoming Beatriz by Charles, Tami 

Paperback(Charlesbridge Teen, 2022)


Publication Date: 01/11/2022

BTSB #: 207622 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 4.6 UG Lexile: 690 F&P: Z+

Subjects: Puerto Ricans - New Jersey - Newark - Fiction Hispanic Americans - New Jersey - Newark - Fiction Haitian Americans - Fiction Gangs - Fiction Dance - Fiction Nineteen eighties - Fiction Newark (N.J.) - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: In 1984 Newark, Beatriz Mendez navigates romance, gang culture, and her family's past. After her gang-leader brother is killed, Beatriz gives up her dreams of dancing in order to run the gang. But her eyes are reopened to her dream of a career in dance when the school brainiac asks her to compete in a dance competition with him--but will the gang let her go?


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207634
Like Vanessa by Charles, Tami 

BTSB Prebound(Charlesbridge, 2019)


Publication Date: 03/13/2018

BTSB #: 207634 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.9 MG RC: 4.5 6-8 Lexile: 730 F&P: Z+

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Williams, Vanessa - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Beauty contests - Fiction Family problems - Fiction Family life - New Jersey - Newark - Fiction School stories Self-confidence - Fiction Newark (N.J.) - History|y20th century - Fiction


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footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.


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P05979
Like Vanessa by Charles, Tami 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2018)


Publication Date: 08/10/2018

BTSB #: P05979 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   


Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Williams, Vanessa - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Family problems - Fiction Family life - New Jersey - Newark - Fiction School stories Self-confidence - Fiction Newark (N.J.) - History|y20th century - Fiction


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.


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