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Read By: Channie Waites Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: March 2018 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781501991318

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

18

Longest Chapter Length:

58:25 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

24 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

25:30 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

8

Other Audiobooks Written by Tami Charles: > View All...

Publisher Description

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, by reluctantly entering her own beauty pageant. 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 an incarcerated mother she barely remembers, a grandfather dealing with addiction and her own battle with self-confidence. But when a new teacher at school coordinates a beauty pageant and convinces Vanessa to enter, Vanessa's view of her own world begins to change. Vanessa discovers that her own self-worth is more than the scores of her talent performance and her interview answers, and that she doesn't need a crown to be comfortable in her own skin and see her own true beauty.

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About Tami Charles

Tami Charles is a former teacher and full-time author of picture books, middle grade, and young adult novels, and nonfiction. As a teacher, she made it her mission to introduce her students to all types of literature but especially diverse books. She is the author of the middle grade novels Like Vanessa, Definitely Daphne, and Becoming Beatriz, and more.

About Channie Waites

Channie Waites is an actress and narrator. Her reading of Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon’s book Zora and Me earned her a 2010 Best Voice Award in children and family listening from AudioFile magazine. She has received a total of four AudioFile Earphones Awards.