When you look like us - Pamela N. Harris

A high-speed story that will draw teens in and keep them turning pages until they reach the unpredictable and thrilling ending.

A must for YA collections.

(School Library Journel) 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, from debut author Pamela Harris.

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.

It's time to step up, to do what the Newport News police department won't.

Bring her home.