Through Angel’s Eyes, Steve’s first novel, draws upon his life-long study of the Civil Rights movement and the inspiration that he has received from Martin Luther King and from the Birmingham, Alabama child marchers. . . . “I have always been inspired by the courage, determination and dignity of the  Birmingham child marchers in the summer of 1963. I saw in them role models  for a generation that is in desperate need of positive peer role models. I saw  in their heroic tale an inspirational, but little-known story that needs to be  shared with today’s youth. In my main character, Angel, I saw an opportunity  to present an example of strength, empathy and resistance to peer pressure  that today’s youth could relate to. As a forty-something white man from New  Zealand, the first challenge was to get into the mind of a 13-year-old black girl from Alabama.”