The Resource Like Vanessa, Tami Charles
Like Vanessa, Tami Charles
Resource Information
The item Like Vanessa, Tami Charles represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Nevins Memorial Library (Methuen).This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Like Vanessa, Tami Charles represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Nevins Memorial Library (Methuen).
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- 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footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Like Vanessa
- Title
- Like Vanessa
- Statement of responsibility
- Tami Charles
- Subject
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- African American girls -- New Jersey | Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Beauty contests
- Beauty contests -- Fiction
- Beauty contests -- Juvenile fiction
- Dysfunctional families
- Dysfunctional families -- New Jersey | Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Family life -- New Jersey | Newark -- Fiction
- Family problems -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- History
- JUVENILE FICTION -- People & Places -- United States -- African American
- Juvenile works
- New Jersey -- Newark
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- 1900-1999
- Nineteen eighties
- Nineteen eighties -- Juvenile fiction
- Schools -- Fiction
- Self-confidence
- Self-confidence -- Fiction
- Self-confidence -- Juvenile fiction
- Urban schools
- Urban schools -- New Jersey | Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Williams, Vanessa
- Williams, Vanessa -- Fiction
- Williams, Vanessa -- Juvenile fiction
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- African American girls
- Language
- eng
- 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footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter
- Cataloging source
- NJQ/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Charles, Tami
- Dewey number
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- 813.6
- Fic
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PZ7.1.C4915
- LC item number
- Li 2018
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Williams, Vanessa
- African American girls
- Beauty contests
- Dysfunctional families
- Urban schools
- Self-confidence
- Nineteen eighties
- Newark (N.J.)
- Williams, Vanessa
- African Americans
- Beauty contests
- Family problems
- Family life
- Schools
- Self-confidence
- Newark (N.J.)
- JUVENILE FICTION
- Williams, Vanessa
- African American girls
- Beauty contests
- Dysfunctional families
- Nineteen eighties
- Self-confidence
- Urban schools
- New Jersey
- Target audience
- pre adolescent
- Label
- Like Vanessa, Tami Charles
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn986523091
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 284 pages
- Isbn
- 9781580897778
- Lccn
- 2016053961
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)986523091
- Label
- Like Vanessa, Tami Charles
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn986523091
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 284 pages
- Isbn
- 9781580897778
- Lccn
- 2016053961
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)986523091
Subject
- African American girls -- New Jersey | Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Beauty contests
- Beauty contests -- Fiction
- Beauty contests -- Juvenile fiction
- Dysfunctional families
- Dysfunctional families -- New Jersey | Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Family life -- New Jersey | Newark -- Fiction
- Family problems -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- History
- JUVENILE FICTION -- People & Places -- United States -- African American
- Juvenile works
- New Jersey -- Newark
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- 1900-1999
- Nineteen eighties
- Nineteen eighties -- Juvenile fiction
- Schools -- Fiction
- Self-confidence
- Self-confidence -- Fiction
- Self-confidence -- Juvenile fiction
- Urban schools
- Urban schools -- New Jersey | Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Williams, Vanessa
- Williams, Vanessa -- Fiction
- Williams, Vanessa -- Juvenile fiction
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- African American girls
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