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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.


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