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Title Becoming Beatriz / Tami Charles.

Publication Info.	Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge Teen, [2019]
	copyright 2019

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
PHS Fiction	HI F Charles	---	Available

Description	260 pages ; 22 cm
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Indexed In:	Junior Library Guild
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 the publisher.
Audience	Ages 14-17.
	Grades 9-12.
Source	B&T 12.2019 PARS
Awards	A Junior Library Guild selection
Subject	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 -- Fiction.
ISBN	9781580897785 : 16.80