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My Book of Life by Angel
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"16-year-old Angel struggles to free herself from the trap of prostitution in which she is caught."--
Imprint:
New York - Margaret Ferguson Books
Pages:
246
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
0374351236, 9780374351236
Language:
English
Statement of responsibility:
Martine Leavitt
Characteristics:
246 p. ;,22 cm
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Add a CommentChild prostitution. Angel is sixteen and popular with johns because she looks thirteen. Things were rough at home and Call gradually lured her away from her dad, got her hooked on the high of his "candy" and made her think that he loved her. Now she is trapped living with Call working the streets night after night in a drug-induced haze with no hope of escape. Serena (who was nineteen but looked sixteen) took Angel under her wing and loved and protected her, but Serena has disappeared. And now Call has brought in eleven-year-old Melli for Angel to teach and mentor. Angel doesn't really care what happens to herself, but she can't let Melli become first her and then Serena, so now she is going to try to write her own book of her own life with the ending of her choosing. If she can.
"Now I know / in a single breath of yes, yes, / you can hear your soul / leaking out your mouth." (31) "she got a date with Mr. P / and she's dead gone." (52) An important story about important themes. Perfect for a YA book because the adults gave up listening long ago.
There's was nothing special or exciting about this book. but it was different.. that's what kept me reading on.