We beat the street :

Davis, Sampson.

We beat the street : how a friendship pact helped us succeed / Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt ; with Sharon M. Draper. - New York : Puffin Books, 2006, c2005. - 194 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

School Library Journal, May 2005 Publisher's Weekly, April 2005 Horn Book, October 2005 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), June 2005

Shares anecdotes from the childhoods, teen years, and young adult lives of three men from Newark, New Jersey, who made a pledge to each other in high school to stay safe from drugs, gangs, and crime, and work to become doctors--a goal they have successfully achieved.

5.5 5-8 Follett Library Resources



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Davis, Sampson.
Jenkins, George, 1973-
Hunt, Rameck.


Socially handicapped children--Newark (N.J.)--Biography.
African American youth--Biography.
Physicians--Newark (N.J.)--Biography.
Friendship.
Success.

HV1437.N6 / D38 2006

610/.92/2 B