When you look like us / Pamela N. Harris
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TextEdition: First editionDescription: 356 pages ; 22 cmISBN: 9780062945891; 0062945890Subject(s): Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction | Missing persons -- Juvenile fiction | African American teenagers -- Juvenile fiction | Women, Black -- Crimes against -- Juvenile fiction | African American families -- Juvenile fiction | Families -- Juvenile fiction | Racism -- Virginia -- Juvenile fiction | African Americans -- Juvenile fiction | Newport News (Va.) -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Young adult fiction | Realistic fiction 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 --
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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 --
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