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Like Vanessa by Charles, Tami 

BTSB Prebound(Charlesbridge, 2019)


Publication Date: 03/13/2018

BTSB #: 207634 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.9 MG RC: 4.5 6-8 Lexile: 730 F&P: Z+

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Williams, Vanessa - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Beauty contests - Fiction Family problems - Fiction Family life - New Jersey - Newark - Fiction School stories Self-confidence - Fiction Newark (N.J.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: 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footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.

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One crazy summer [Gaither sisters]by Williams-Garcia, Rita 

BTSB Prebound(HarperCollins/Amistad, 2010)


Publication Date: 01/15/2010

BTSB #: 952892 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.6 MG RC: 4.6 3-5 Lexile: 750 F&P: W

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: Black Panther Party - Fiction Mothers - Fiction African Americans - Fiction California - History - Fiction

Summary: In the summer of 1968, after traveling to Oakland, California, to spend a month with their estranged mother, Delphine and her two younger sisters get a cold welcome as their mother makes them attend a Black Panther summer camp.

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Sky full of stars by Jackson, Linda Williams 

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Publication Date: 01/02/2018

BTSB #: 484987 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-12   
AR: 5 MG RC: 4.7 6-8 Lexile: 780

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Civil rights movements - Fiction Racism - Fiction Family life - Mississippi - Fiction Mississippi - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In Stillwater, Mississippi, in 1955, thirteen-year-old African American Rose Lee Carter looks to her family and friends to understand her place in the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement.

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