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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, by reluctantly entering her own beauty pageant. 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 an incarcerated 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.
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Self-confidence, Urban schools, Dysfunctional families, Juvenile fiction, Nineteen eighties, African American girls, Beauty contests, History, Children's fiction, African americans, fiction, New jersey, fiction, Beauty contests, fiction, Family, fiction, Schools, fiction, Family problems, Family life, Fiction, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Social Themes, Schools, African AmericansPeople
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New Jersey, Newark (N.J.), NewarkTimes
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May 10, 2018, Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing
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In container (17 cm.).
Title from container.
Compact disc.
Narrated by Channie Waites.
10 years and up.
Accelerated Reader MG 4.9 10 193702
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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 an incarcerated 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.
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