"Angel’s story is a stunning, haunting portrait of exploitation and redemption."--Horn Book Magazine, starred
"This is a powerful book that will leave readers wishing they could hear more of Angel’s gripping story.--School Library Journal, starred
"...Angel’s story is uniquely her own, and Leavitt has done a brilliant job of imagining and recording it.”--Booklist, starred
"...exquisite..."--Publishers Weekly, starred
"An astonishing, wrenching achievement.”--Kirkus, starred
"Powerful moments of brutality exist alongside equally powerful moments of insight in this exceptionally moving portrayal of life on the street." - BCCB
Advance praise for My Book of Life by Angel
“Astonishing! Dark matter shot through with light. This is Leavitt at her brilliant best."-- Tim Wynne-Jones, author of Blink & Caution, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award book
"My Book of Life by Angel is exquisite—a story that sees into and under and above all manner of things. Martine Leavitt's angry-making, beautiful, and profoundly compassionate story is a wonder that embraces both human and divine. What a glorious book!"--Caroyln Coman, author of Many Stones, a Printz Honor Award and National Book Award finalist book
"The title is perfect, the voice authentic, the depth of research must have been excruciating. Once we begin this compelling, essential story, we find we must read to the end. The compassion and sensitivity of the telling make it possible to do so."--Helen Frost, Printz Honor award-winning author of Hidden
"Martine Leavitt creates a tight, desperate space where Billy Budd and Lucifer co-mingle. Unblinkingly grim. Masterfully ethereal."—Rita Williams-Garcia, author of One Crazy Summer, a National Book Award finalist book and a Newbery Honor Book
"Without a doubt this book will go a long way in building awareness in all those who read it." - Wayne Leng, creator of www.missingpeople.net
