Becoming Beatriz / Tami Charles.

By: Charles, Tami [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge Teen, [2019]Copyright date: copyright 2019Description: 260 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781580897785 :Subject(s): Dance -- Juvenile fiction | Ethnic relations -- Juvenile fiction | Female gang members -- Juvenile fiction | Haitian Americans -- Juvenile fiction | Hispanic American gangs -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction | Nineteen eighties -- Juvenile fiction | Puerto Ricans -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Juvenile fiction | Teenagers -- Juvenile fiction | Dance -- Fiction | Ethnic relations -- Fiction | Gangs -- Fiction | Haitian Americans -- Fiction | Puerto Ricans -- Fiction | Dance -- Fiction | Ethnic relations -- Fiction | Gangs -- Fiction | Haitian Americans -- Fiction | Puerto Ricans -- Newark (N.J.) -- Fiction | Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction | Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction | Newark (N.J.) -- History -- FictionDDC classification: Fic LOC classification: PZ7.1.C4915 | Be 2019Awards: A Junior Library Guild selectionSummary: "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 the publisher.
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"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 the publisher.

Ages 14-17.

Grades 9-12.

A Junior Library Guild selection

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