We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success | 
 enlarge | Authors: Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, Sharon Draper
Publisher: Puffin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 21004
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0142406279
Dewey Decimal Number: 610.922
EAN: 9780142406274
ASIN: 0142406279
Publication Date: April 20, 2006
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Growing up on the rough streets of Newark, New Jersey, Rameck, George, and Sampson could easily have followed their childhood friends into drug dealing, gangs, and prison. But when a presentation at their school made the three boys aware of the opportunities available to them in the medical and dental professions, they made a pact among themselves that they would become doctors. It took a lot of determinationand a lot of support from one anotherbut despite all the hardships along the way, the three succeeded. Retold with the help of an award-winning author, this younger adaptation of the adult hit novel The Pact is a hard-hitting, powerful, and inspirational book that will speak to young readers everywhere.
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 A must read! August 15, 2008
Outstanding book! I am fortunate to know Dr. Davis. No wonder why this is such a great story. A great man with an incredible outlook on life. He spent some time mentoring my nieces while they were attending Rutgers University and inspired them to do great things. Doc, They both graduated and are attending grad school:) Thank you! I also had the opportunity to meet Sharon Draper(Co-author)when she came to the middle school where I am now a teacher. The school love all of her books.
My nieces and I are also products of Newark, NJ and the Bronx, NY. "We Beat the Street" is a voice for those inner city kids and every kid that have dreams but yet do not have the resources immediately available in their homes, community and in their every day life. A great story of how to overcome obstacles, stigmas and how to give back to a community.
 Following in People's Footsteps June 15, 2007
We Beat the Streets by three doctors, Sampson, George, and Rameck, is a nonfiction book. This story is about three friends that go to a medical school and they wanted to be different doctors. I learned that people should hang out with the people who want to bring you higher to a higher grade. I like this book becouse it has a lot of adventure and mystery.Other will like it because it has magnificent stories that will make you want to read more. -by Kevon Pierrot
Read Aloud to students March 10, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is an excellent read aloud book for teachers of young African American males. It encourages and helps them realize that no matter how badly one's life begins, it doesn't have to stay that way. It's a great discussion starter to help young people voice their concerns in a format that normally would not be available to them.
Extremly Good December 6, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Chris Cummings
We Beat the Streets
This book "We Beat the Streets" can show people, it doesn't matter were you come from. You can always become something even if you live in the ghetto.
This Book is about three doctors, George Jenkins, Sampson Davis and Rameck Hunt, and all three of them come from a New Jersey city, Newark. All three of them fulfill there dream and go to college. In the book there are incidents from the lives of all three doctors about them living in the bad areas of Newark when they were kids. They did some bad things at first in there lives but then they realized later on in there life that the street life won't pay off in the end. As the reader reads this book they will follow Sampson, Rameck and George as there journey from first grade through medical school. See them achieve there goals. In this book "We Beat the Streets" it shows tragedy of street life and how still living in bad communities you can always achieve your goals.
The content of "We Beat the Street" was edited really good for such young readers, making it a want to read book for this age level. The style of this book was simple but also attractive which will catch reader's eyes. Also the message was to the reader is excellent. It puts a warning to readers and also it's a inspiration, and encourages higher education, especially for those who doubt their ability to achieve there education goals. "We Beat The Streets" was one of the best books I have ever read on a subject like this. I extremely recommend this book to readers.
Beat the Street October 16, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In this work three African American doctors tell the story of how they used their brains, loyalty, and few good chances to escape their tough urban neighborhood, go to college and medical school, and become doctors. The book is targeted for an adolescent audience, although there is an adult version, called "The Pact" available. At the end of each chapter, the doctors give some advice to young people who want to achieve more than those around them expect.
Quote: "Young people need positive role models and guidance in their lives. There is no underestimating a positive figure in a child's life."
I picked this book up because it is the only one recommended by more than one of my ninth graders. I enjoyed the anecdotes about the childhood and teenage years of the young men, but mostly I appreciated their frank discussion of the challenges their lives presented, the choices they needed to make, and the belief of many in their neighborhood that they would never get out. I think young people would enjoy the work even more than I did, since the authors were careful to target students.
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