Bound To Stay Bound

		Like Vanessa  Author: Charles, Tami  Publisher:  Findaway World, LLC (2018)  Classification: Fiction  Physical Description: 1 sound media player (7 hr., 30 min.), digital, HD audio, 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.  BTSB No: P05979  ISBN: 9781980012887  Ages: 10-14  Grades: 5-9  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 -- 20th century -- Fiction Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural Family Life
	Price: $71.24

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footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.