Book
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- CENTRAL: Teen Collection
- OSHTEMO: Teen Collection
When you look like us
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]
Physical Description
356 pages ; 22 cm
Audience
12 years and up.
Summary
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.
Subjects
- Siblings > Juvenile fiction
- Missing persons > Juvenile fiction.
- African American teenagers > Juvenile fiction.
- African American teenage girls > Juvenile fiction.
- African American families > Juvenile fiction.
- Families > Juvenile fiction.
- Racism > Virginia > Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction.
- African American teenagers > Fiction.
- African American teenage girls > Crimes against > Fiction.
- African American families > Fiction.
- Families > Fiction.
- Racism > Virginia > Fiction.
- Siblings > Fiction
- Missing persons > Fiction.
- African Americans > Fiction.
- Newport News (Va.) > Fiction.