The Resource Becoming Beatriz, by Tami Charles
Becoming Beatriz, by Tami Charles
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The item Becoming Beatriz, by Tami Charles represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in McCracken County Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Becoming Beatriz, by Tami Charles represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in McCracken County Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- In 1984 in the barrios of Newark, Beatriz Mendez is looking forward to dancing at her fifteenth birthday, because dancing is her true passion in life, but when her brother Juni, gang-leader of the Puerto Rican gang the Diablos, is killed by the rival Haitian Macoute gang she finds herself thrust into the role of gang-leader and drug dealer--until she meets Nassar, a dorky Haitian boy who shares and reignites her passion for dancing
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- pages cm
- Note
- Companion to: Like Vanessa
- Isbn
- 9781580897785
- Label
- Becoming Beatriz
- Title
- Becoming Beatriz
- Statement of responsibility
- by Tami Charles
- Subject
-
- Haitian Americans -- Fiction
- Nineteen eighties -- Juvenile fiction
- Dance -- Fiction
- Gangs -- Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / Performing Arts / Dance
- 1900-1999
- Hispanic American gangs -- New Jersey | Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- History
- Hispanic American gangs
- Nineteen eighties
- Teenagers
- Ethnic relations
- Female gang members -- Juvenile fiction
- Female gang members
- Dance -- Juvenile fiction
- Dance
- Puerto Ricans -- New Jersey | Newark -- Fiction
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Haitian Americans
- Ethnic relations -- Fiction
- Teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
- Juvenile works
- Fiction
- Ethnic relations -- Juvenile fiction
- Haitian Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Puerto Ricans -- New Jersey | Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Puerto Ricans
- New Jersey -- Newark
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In 1984 in the barrios of Newark, Beatriz Mendez is looking forward to dancing at her fifteenth birthday, because dancing is her true passion in life, but when her brother Juni, gang-leader of the Puerto Rican gang the Diablos, is killed by the rival Haitian Macoute gang she finds herself thrust into the role of gang-leader and drug dealer--until she meets Nassar, a dorky Haitian boy who shares and reignites her passion for dancing
- Cataloging source
- NJQ/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Charles, Tami
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PZ7.1.C4915
- LC item number
- Be 2019
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Puerto Ricans
- Haitian Americans
- Hispanic American gangs
- Female gang members
- Teenagers
- Dance
- Ethnic relations
- Nineteen eighties
- Newark (N.J.)
- Puerto Ricans
- Haitian Americans
- Gangs
- Dance
- Ethnic relations
- Newark (N.J.)
- JUVENILE FICTION / Performing Arts / Dance
- Dance
- Ethnic relations
- Female gang members
- Haitian Americans
- Hispanic American gangs
- Nineteen eighties
- Puerto Ricans
- Teenagers
- New Jersey
- Target audience
- pre adolescent
- Label
- Becoming Beatriz, by Tami Charles
- Note
- Companion to: Like Vanessa
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1055567670
- Extent
- pages cm
- Isbn
- 9781580897785
- Lccn
- 2018031378
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1055567670
- Label
- Becoming Beatriz, by Tami Charles
- Note
- Companion to: Like Vanessa
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1055567670
- Extent
- pages cm
- Isbn
- 9781580897785
- Lccn
- 2018031378
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1055567670
Subject
- 1900-1999
- Dance
- Dance -- Fiction
- Dance -- Juvenile fiction
- Ethnic relations
- Ethnic relations -- Fiction
- Ethnic relations -- Juvenile fiction
- Female gang members
- Female gang members -- Juvenile fiction
- Fiction
- Gangs -- Fiction
- Haitian Americans
- Haitian Americans -- Fiction
- Haitian Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Hispanic American gangs
- Hispanic American gangs -- New Jersey | Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- History
- JUVENILE FICTION / Performing Arts / Dance
- Juvenile works
- New Jersey -- Newark
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Nineteen eighties
- Nineteen eighties -- Juvenile fiction
- Puerto Ricans
- Puerto Ricans -- New Jersey | Newark -- Fiction
- Puerto Ricans -- New Jersey | Newark -- Juvenile fiction
- Teenagers
- Teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
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