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Like Vanessa
Title:
Like Vanessa
ISBN:
9781501991035

9781501990755
Edition:
Unabridged.
Physical Description:
6 audio discs (7 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Compact discs.
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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footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
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