When You Look Like Us

✍ Scribed by Recorded Books, Inc.;Harris, Pamela N

• Book ID: 100644611
• Publisher: Quill Tree Books
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 213 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 0062945890

✦ Synopsis

From debut author Pamela Harris comes a timely, gripping teen novel about a boy who must take up the search for his sister when she goes missing from a neighborhood where black girls' disappearances are too often overlooked. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Tiffany D. Jackson.

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.

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✦ Subjects

Racism -- Virginia -- Juvenile fiction