Author:
Charles, Tami, author.
ImprintWatertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2018]
Description284 pages ; 22 cm
Note:"A Junior Library Guild selection"--Jacket back.
Note: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 the odds are against her until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.