Becoming Beatriz Browse by Format_Novel They each long for the

They each long for the language that they know and the friends who understand them

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Emma learns that smiling

she realizes that change might not be so bad after all

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Becoming Beatriz Browse by Format_Novel They each long for theBy: Tami Charles "Forgiveness is a gift." Readers of Tami Charless debut novel, Like Vanessa, will remember neighborhood bad girl Beatriz Mendez. Beatriz bullied and betrayed Vanessa as they competed for Miss King Middle School, but is Beatriz really bad? Every story is deeper than you think. When the day of her quinceaera goes horribly wrong, Beatriz must put aside her dreams of dancing and getting famous enough to change her life in order to care