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When you look like us / Pam...
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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monografia Rebiun36009511 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun36009511 240405t20212021nyu d 000 1 eng 2020946925 9780062945891 hardcover) 0062945890 hardcover) UCJC0048210 UCJC lccopycat n-us-va 087.5 813.6 23 Harris, Pamela N. author. When you look like us Pamela N. Harris. First edition. New York, NY Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers [2021] New York, NY New York, NY Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021. 356 pages 22 cm. 356 pages Text txt rdacontent] unmediated n rdamedia] volume nc rdacarrier] PROYECTO LIJACE 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. 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. Young adult fiction. African American teenagers- Fiction. Women, Black- Crimes against- Fiction. African American families- Fiction. Families- Fiction. Racism- Virginia Fiction. Siblings- Fiction. Missing persons- Fiction. African Americans- Fiction. YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Coming of Age. YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Siblings. YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism. African American families. African American teenagers. Brothers and sisters. Families. Missing persons. Racism. Young adult fiction. Newport News (Va.)- Juvenile fiction. Newport News (Va.)- Fiction. Virginia Young adult fiction. Domestic fiction. Fiction. Juvenile works. Young adult works. Domestic fiction. Young adult fiction. Domestic fiction.