Becoming Beatriz, Tami Charles
Type
Label
Becoming Beatriz, Tami Charles
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Intended audience
690L, Lexile
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Becoming Beatriz
Oclc number
1055567670
Responsibility statement
Tami Charles
resource.studyProgramName
Accelerated Reader, UG, 4.6, 9, 9, 504970
Summary
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. 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. She meets Nassar, a dorky Haitian boy who shares and reignites her passion for dancing. Will Beatriz choose the life decided for her-- or the one she creates for herself? -- adapted from run-on sentence provided, and jacket
Target audience
adolescent
Creator
Subject
- Hispanic American gangs -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Fiction
- Gangs -- Fiction
- Ethnic relations -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Dance -- Fiction
- Nineteen eighties -- Fiction
- Hispanic American teenagers -- Fiction
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Haitian Americans -- Fiction
- Female gang members -- Fiction
- Teenagers -- Fiction
- Puerto Ricans -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Fiction
Content
Author
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Outgoing Resources
- Classification2
- Creator1
- Genre2
- Subject13
- Hispanic American gangs -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Fiction
- Gangs -- Fiction
- Ethnic relations -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Dance -- Fiction
- Nineteen eighties -- Fiction
- Hispanic American teenagers -- Fiction
- Newark (N.J.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Haitian Americans -- Fiction
- Female gang members -- Fiction
- Teenagers -- Fiction
- Puerto Ricans -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Fiction
- Content1
- Author1
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