Like Vanessa
Record details
- ISBN: 1501990756
- ISBN: 9781501990755
- ISBN: 9781501990755
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Physical Description:
6 audio discs (7 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
sound disc - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, [2018]
- Copyright: ℗2018
Content descriptions
General Note: | In container (17 cm.). Title from container. Compact disc. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrated by Channie Waites. |
Summary, etc.: | 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. |
Target Audience Note: | 10 years and up. |
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Genre: | Children's audiobooks. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Bibliomation.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Brookfield Library | J CD F/CHARLES (Text) | 34029142875979 | Juvenile Book on CD | Available | - |