Bound To Stay Bound

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 Like Vanessa
 Author: Charles, Tami

 Publisher:  Findaway World, LLC (2018)

 Classification: Fiction
 Physical Description: 1 sound media player (7 hr., 30 min.), digital, HD audio, 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.

 BTSB No: P05979 ISBN: 9781980012887
 Ages: 10-14 Grades: 5-9

 Subjects:
 Williams, Vanessa -- Fiction
 African Americans -- Fiction
 Family problems -- Fiction
 Family life -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Fiction
 School stories
 Self-confidence -- Fiction
 Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres:
Historical Fiction
Multicultural
Family Life

Price: $71.24

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footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.




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