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Becoming Beatriz / by Tami Charles.

Author: Charles, Tami, author.

ImprintWatertown, MA : Charlesbridge Teen, [2019]

Description260 pages ; 22 cm

Note:Companion to: Like Vanessa.

Note:"In 1984 Newark, Beatriz Mendez navigates romance, gang culture, and her family's past. After her gang-leader brother is killed, Beatriz gives up her dreams of dancing in order to run the gang. But her eyes are reopened to her dream of a career in dance when the school brainiac asks her to compete in a dance competition with him--but will the gang let her go?"-- Provided by publisher.

Note: Awards"A Junior Library Guild selection"--Jacket back.



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