TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Kim
TI  - Invisible son
SN  - 9780593482100
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - African American teenage boys
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Missing persons
KW  - Race relations
KW  - COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
KW  - Best friends
KW  - Juvenile detention
KW  - False imprisonment
KW  - Young adult fiction
KW  - Social problem fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
KW  - Novels
N1  - Ages 14 and up; Random House; 650; Lexile
N2  - After spending six months in a juvenile detention center for a crime he did not commit, seventeen-year-old Andre Jackson returns home and tries to adapt to a Covid-19 world and find his missing best friend; Life can change in an instant. When you're wrongfully accused of a crime. When a virus shuts everything down. When the girl you love moves on.  Andre Jackson is determined to reclaim his identity. But returning from juvie doesn't feel like coming home. His Portland, Oregon, neighborhood is rapidly gentrifying, and COVID-19 shuts down school before he can return. And Andre's suspicions about his arrest for a crime he didn't commit even taint his friendships. It's as if his whole life has been erased.  The one thing Andre is counting on is his relationship with the Whitaker kids--especially his longtime crush, Sierra. But Sierra's brother Eric is missing, and the facts don't add up as their adoptive parents fight to keep up the act that their racially diverse family is picture-perfect. If Andre can find Eric, he just might uncover the truth about his own arrest. But in a world where power is held by a few and Andre is nearly invisible, searching for the truth is a dangerous game. Critically acclaimed author Kim Johnson delivers another social justice thriller that shines a light on being young and Black in America--perfect for fans of The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas and Dear Justyce by Nic Stone
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