Like Vanessa: Pray Myself Invisible–Baby Steps, Girlfriend

Inspired by the first black woman to be crowned Miss America, thirteen-year-old Vanessa enters a local beauty pageant in the hopes of transforming her life.

Here are links to our lists for the novel: Fifty Stinkin’ Years–Goin’ Up Yonder, Pray Myself Invisible–Baby Steps, Girlfriend, Rise of the Undead–Junito Shatters the Earth, A Long Way from Our World–Much, Much Too Late, Me and My Stupid Miss America Dreams–I Remember