Like Vanessa

by Tami Charles

Book Overview

Middle graders will laugh and cry with thirteen-year-old Vanessa Martin as she tries to be like Vanessa Williams, the first black Miss America.

In this semi-autobiographical debut novel set in 1983, Vanessa Martin's real-life reality of living with family in public housing in Newark, New Jersey is a far cry from the glamorous Miss America stage. She struggles with a mother she barely remembers, a grandfather dealing with addiction and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580897770
• ISBN13: 9781580897778
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher