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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This is one I had a hard time booktalking based on the flap copy. The kids would go, "...beauty pageants?" and pass. Vanessa Williams is not a person they've heard of and pageants aren't part of their world. Now that I've read it I can give them a quickie plot summary and add, "This is a book about a Black girl figuring out that she's beautiful just the way she is," and they are IN. There's so much more going on than that -- friendship, serious family struggles, the complications of a mentor teacher who doesn't seem to come from your world, I struggle with pageants as a way to self-confidence. The author's note talks about her positive experiences as a contestant, and I want to be open-minded, but it's hard to deny that the girls are being judged as objects of beauty and entertainment. This book also could have been more fat-positive...but it also could have been a lot less so. It's not a weight-loss makeover story; Vanessa's fat re-positions itself as she goes through puberty and as she builds a healthy walking habit, which is also meditation and bonding time with her cousin (as opposed to an unhealthy exercise obsession that's focused on losing weight). By the end she speaks of her big hips and boobs and rounded belly with approval. I'm going to give it a cautious thumbs-up on that front, but I would welcome conversation about that. Esta resenha foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Resenhistas do LibraryThing. Personally, I do not agree with the practice of beauty pageants so I was not excited about reading this book, but I was engaged from the beginning and I was relieved by the end. This is not just some boring tale about the ugly duckling who turns into a swan through the magic of cosmetics and diet... it's about the metamorphosis of the protagonist into something bigger, better and more beautiful than she expected. It's a story that is more about the beauty within, of love, family and acceptance of all it's forms. A must read for anyone who needs a boost of confidence but definitely for girls who need to know that beauty is more about your inner self, rather than what's on the outside. Literary merit: Fantastic Characterization: Great Recommend: Yes Level: Older Middle School A historical fiction novel set in the 1980’s right after Vanessa Williams is crowned the first Miss America. 13 almost 14-year-old Vanessa Martin watches on her TV when a black girl is finally crowned Miss America. It gives Vanessa a hope she has never felt before. Maybe she too could be Miss America someday. Vanessa is African American with dark skin, full figured and as always felt out of place. But when her middle school decides to host its first pageant with a little coercion from her grandfather and teacher she decides to enter. Vanessa has the best singing voice at her school and a desire to win. To finally show that beauty comes in all forms. This is a beautiful novel that explores beauty, diversity, and so much more. It is a novel that also talks about alcoholism, family abandonment, sex, puberty, abuse, poverty, and drug dependency. For these reasons this book is intended for older middle school audiences and beyond. This book is an amazing positive story that looks at diversity, acceptance, LGBT issues, and poverty. Vanessa’s voice is full of hope for young girls as she tries to figure out her way in the world. This is a must read historical fiction that will resonate with teens today. A must buy for all public libraries. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
African American Fiction.
Juvenile Fiction.
Juvenile Literature.
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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Triumphant. See also: Miss Meteor (YA), You Should See Me In A Crown (YA), Some Places More Than Others by Renee Watson
Quotes
Closed mouths don't get fed...If you don't say what's in your heart, it ain't never gonna come to you. (50)
What in God's eyes did I do wrong to not have a mom like that? (104)
No mother would leave her daughter without a good reason. There has to be an explanation. (105)
...and right then I realize we'll never be okay. We'll never be us again. Our old selves are buried deep in our pretend selves. We pretend that life is normal...that it's okay to live like this - hungry and angry and empty and wanting. (194)
When all along what I really needed was to find a way to be like...me. Like Vanessa. (230)
You can't buy beauty or pray for it to come in the form of what you see on the television screen. Beauty is just something you gotta be. (249)
From the back matter:
Life is an arrow. Sometimes you get pulled back only to be launched into something beautiful. ( )