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My book of life by Angel / Martine Leavitt.

by Leavitt, Martine, 1953-

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Groundwood Books, c2012.

Prostitution -- Fiction.

Teenage girls -- Fiction.

CLA Young Adult Book Award.

Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) -- Fiction.

9781554981175 (pbk.)

1554981174 (pbk.)

246 p. ; 22 cm.

"It starts when Call sees sixteen-year-old Angel stealing shoes at the mall. He just buys her Chinese food at first, but before long Call is supplying her with 'candy' and saying he loves her. Angel ends up living with him and walking the Kiddy Stroll in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside — a neighbourhood with a reputation for being the poorest postal code in the country, with one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world. When Angel's best friend Serena goes missing, Angel starts to pay attention to the stories of other girls who have disappeared, and a mysterious Mr. P. who drives a van with tinted windows. But Call tells her she's crazy to worry, and the police turn a blind eye. And Angel remains trapped in her street life. Then Call brings home another girl. Her name is Melli, and she is just eleven years old, and suddenly Angel realizes what she must do. Save Melli at any cost, and perhaps save herself at the same time."--Jacket.

Winner of the CLA Young Adult Book Award, 2013.

Novels in verse.

Canadian fiction.

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