Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. Harris and published by Quill Tree Books. It’s time to step up, to do what the Newport News police department won’t. When You Look Like Us is written by Pamela N. If I was a better brother, she’d be finishing senior year instead of being another name on a missing persons list. If I hadn’t hung up on her that night, she would be at our house, spending time with Grandma. When you look like usbrown skin, brown eyes, black braids or fades. 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. No one even blinks twice over a missing black girl from public housing because she must’ve brought whatever happened to her upon herself. The book follows a teen boy whose sister goes missing and he must take up the search himself. When you look like us-brown skin, brown eyes, black braids or fades-everyone else thinks you’re trouble. When You Look Like Us was the debut novel from Pamela N. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Tiffany D. 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. Editions for When You Look Like Us: 0062945890 (Hardcover published in 2021), (Kindle Edition published in 2021), (Audible Audio published in 2021), 0062.
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