Like Vanessa Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes - Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance Draper presents “storytelling at its

Draper presents “storytelling at its finest” (School Library Journal

winning artist Rachel Isadora brings another fabulous fairy tale to brilliant life with her stunning collages

Her family was brutally murdered as she was dragged away to a slave ship and sent to be sold in the Carolinas

My disease is as rare as it is famous

Like Vanessa Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes - Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance Draper presents “storytelling at itsMiddle 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 her own battle