When you look like us / Pamela N. Harris.
Material type:
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780062945891
- 0062945890
- 9780062945907
- 0062945904
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- Family life -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Teenage girls -- Crimes against -- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- Racism -- Fiction
- Race relations -- Fiction
- Newport News (Va.) -- Fiction
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION -- Coming of Age
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION -- Family -- Siblings
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION -- Social Themes -- Prejudice & Racism
- PZ7.1.H37473 Wh 2021
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Speedway New Books Area | Young Adult Books | YA HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 35550431757676 |
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 -- Publisher's description.
Ages 14-up.
12 years and up.