Like Vanessa
by Tami Charles
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- Grade
- 5-8
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 2018
Word Count 65,602
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 730L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.9
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 193702, 10 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Subject Headings
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
- 20th century
- Juvenile Fiction | Performing Arts | General
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- Family problems--Fiction
- African American girls--New Jersey--Newark--Juvenile fiction
- Schools
- Dysfunctional families
- Family life--New Jersey--Newark--Fiction
- New Jersey
- Urban schools
- Williams, Vanessa--Fiction
- Newark (N.J.)--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction
- Williams, Vanessa
- Self-confidence--Juvenile fiction
- Beauty contests--Fiction
- Newark (N.J.)
- Beauty contests--Juvenile fiction
- Historical fiction
- Nineteen eighties
- Self-confidence--Fiction
- African American girls
- Children's Books/All Ages
- Family life
- Newark (N.J.)--History--20th century--Fiction
- Beauty contests
- African Americans--Fiction
- Family problems
- African Americans
- History
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | General
- Schools--Fiction
- Newark
- Nineteen eighties--Juvenile fiction
- Urban schools--New Jersey--Newark--Juvenile fiction
- Williams, Vanessa--Juvenile fiction
- Self-confidence
- Dysfunctional families--New Jersey--Newark--Juvenile fiction
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Awards & Distinctions 1
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Middle Selection, 2018
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