Becoming Beatriz, Tami Charles
Type
Label
Becoming Beatriz, Tami Charles
Language
eng
Index
no index present
resource.interestAgeLevel
12-19, Brodart
resource.interestGradeLevel
7-12, Brodart
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Becoming Beatriz
Oclc number
1055567670
Responsibility statement
Tami Charles
resource.studyProgramName
Accelerated Reader, UG, 4.6, 9.
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
Creator
Subject
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / People & Places / United States / Hispanic & Latino
- Haitian Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Hispanic American gangs -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
- Nineteen eightie -- Fiction
- Teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
- Gangs -- Fiction
- Ethnic relations -- Fiction
- Dance -- Fiction
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Haitian Americans -- Fiction
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Performing Arts / Dance
- Teenagers -- 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
- Classification2
- Creator1
- Subject20
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / People & Places / United States / Hispanic & Latino
- Haitian Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Hispanic American gangs -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
- Nineteen eightie -- Fiction
- Teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
- Gangs -- Fiction
- Ethnic relations -- Fiction
- Dance -- Fiction
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Haitian Americans -- Fiction
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Performing Arts / Dance
- Teenagers -- 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
- Other version1
- Mapped to1