Like Vanessa

Record details

ISBN: 1501990756
ISBN: 9781501990755
ISBN: 9781501990755
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

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.