When you look like us /
Harris, Pamela N.,
When you look like us / Pamela N. Harris. - First edition. - 356 pages ; 22 cm
When you look like us-brown skin, brown eyes, black braids or fades-everyone else thinks you're trouble. No one even blinks twice over a missing black girl from public housing because she must've brought whatever happened to her upon herself. I, Jay Murphy, can admit that, for a minute, I thought my sister Nicole just got caught up with her boyfriend-a drug dealer-and his friends. But she's been gone too long. Nic, where are you? If I hadn't hung up on her that night, she would be at our house, spending time with Grandma. If I was a better brother, she'd be finishing senior year instead of being another name on a missing persons list. It's time to step up, to do what the Newport News police department won't. Bring her home --
Ages 14-up. 12 years and up.
9780062945891 0062945890
2020946925
African American teenagers--Fiction.
Women, Black--Crimes against--Fiction.
African American families--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Racism--Virginia--Fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
Missing persons--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Newport News (Va.)--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Domestic fiction.
When you look like us / Pamela N. Harris. - First edition. - 356 pages ; 22 cm
When you look like us-brown skin, brown eyes, black braids or fades-everyone else thinks you're trouble. No one even blinks twice over a missing black girl from public housing because she must've brought whatever happened to her upon herself. I, Jay Murphy, can admit that, for a minute, I thought my sister Nicole just got caught up with her boyfriend-a drug dealer-and his friends. But she's been gone too long. Nic, where are you? If I hadn't hung up on her that night, she would be at our house, spending time with Grandma. If I was a better brother, she'd be finishing senior year instead of being another name on a missing persons list. It's time to step up, to do what the Newport News police department won't. Bring her home --
Ages 14-up. 12 years and up.
9780062945891 0062945890
2020946925
African American teenagers--Fiction.
Women, Black--Crimes against--Fiction.
African American families--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Racism--Virginia--Fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
Missing persons--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Newport News (Va.)--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Domestic fiction.