Title: Little Peach
Description: When Michelle runs away from her drug-addicted mother, she has just enough money to make it to New York City, where she hopes to move in with a friend. But once she arrives at the bustling Port Authority, she is confronted with the terrifying truth: she is alone and out of options. Then she meets Devon, a good-looking, well-dressed guy who emerges from the crowd armed with a kind smile, a place for her to stay, and eyes that seem to understand exactly how she feels. But Devon is not what he seems to be, and soon Michelle finds herself engulfed in the world of child prostitution where he becomes her  Daddy  and she his  Little Peach.  It is a world of impossible choices, where the line between love and abuse, captor and savior, is blurred beyond recognition. This hauntingly vivid story illustrates the human spirit s indomitable search for home, and one girl s struggle to survive.

Michelle runs away from her drug-addicted mother to New York City and finds herself engulfed in the world of child prostitution. The plot contains profanity, sexual references, and descriptions of physical abuse and sexual violence.
Subjects: Dysfunctional families, Juvenile fiction, Family problems, Prostitution, Fiction, Runaways, Missing persons, African Americans, Drug abuse, Children's fiction, Drug abuse, fiction, African americans, fiction, Runaways, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction
Places: New York (N.Y.)