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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footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
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- ISBN: 9781580897778
- ISBN: 1580897770
- Physical Description: 284 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, c2018.
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