Bibliograph

Like Vanessa, Tami Charles

Type

Label

Like Vanessa, Tami Charles

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Like Vanessa

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Tami Charles

Summary

Middle graders will laugh and cry with thirteen-year-old Vanessa Martin as she tries to be like Vanessa Williams, the first black Miss America. In this semi-autobiographical debut novel set in 1983, Vanessa Martin's real-life reality of living with family in public housing in Newark, New Jersey is a far cry from the glamorous Miss America stage. She struggles with a mother she barely remembers, a grandfather dealing with addiction and her own battle with self-confidence. But when a new teacher at school coordinates a beauty pageant and convinces Vanessa to enter, Vanessa's view of her own world begins to change. Vanessa discovers that her own self-worth is more than the scores of her talent performance and her interview answers, and that she doesn't need a crown to be comfortable in her own skin and see her own true beauty

Target audience

juvenile

Classification

Contributor