When You Look Like Us

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A timely, gripping YA debut perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Tiffany D. Jackson, 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.

When you look like usbrown skin, brown eyes, black braids or fadespeople think youre trouble. No one looks twice at a missing black girl from public housing because she mustve brought whatever happened to her upon herself. I, Jay Murphy, can admit that, for a minute, I thought my sister, Nicole, got too caught up with her boyfrienda drug dealerand his friends. But shes been gone too long now.

If I hadnt hung up on her that night, shed be spending time with our grandma. If I was a better brother, shed be finishing senior year instead of being another name on a missing persons list. Its time to step up and do what the Newport News police department wont.

Nic, Im bringing you home.