Becoming Beatriz, Tami Charles
Type
Label
Becoming Beatriz, Tami Charles
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Becoming Beatriz
Oclc number
1117495858
Responsibility statement
Tami Charles
Summary
"In 1984 Newark, Beatriz Mendez navigates romance, gang culture, and her family's past. After her gang-leader brother is killed, Beatriz gives up her dreams of dancing in order to run the gang. But her eyes are reopened to her dream of a career in dance when the school brainiac asks her to compete in a dance competition with him--but will the gang let her go?"--, Provided by publisher
Target audience
adolescent
Classification
Creator
Subject
- Haitian Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Hispanic American gangs -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
- Gangs -- Fiction
- Ethnic relations -- Fiction
- Dance -- Fiction
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Haitian Americans -- Fiction
- Nineteen eighties -- Juvenile fiction
- Puerto Ricans -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Fiction
- Puerto Ricans -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Ethnic relations -- Juvenile fiction
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Female gang members -- Juvenile fiction
- Dance -- Juvenile fiction
Author
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Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Creator1
- Subject15
- Haitian Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Hispanic American gangs -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
- Gangs -- Fiction
- Ethnic relations -- Fiction
- Dance -- Fiction
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Haitian Americans -- Fiction
- Nineteen eighties -- Juvenile fiction
- Puerto Ricans -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Fiction
- Puerto Ricans -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Ethnic relations -- Juvenile fiction
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Female gang members -- Juvenile fiction
- Dance -- Juvenile fiction
- Author1
- Mapped to1