Full name: We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success

Authors: Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, George Jenkins Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780142406274 0142406279

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 determination--and a lot of support from one another--but 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. Similar books: The Ditchdigger's Daughters by Yvonne S. Thornton The Pact by Sampson Davis I'm Proud of You by Tim Madigan An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff Ghost Boy by Martin Pistorius MWF Seeking BFF by Rachel Bertsche The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore Dear Senator by Essie Mae Washington-Williams Secret Daughter by June Cross Having Our Say by Sarah L. Delany Life Is So Good by George Dawson A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind American Hunger by Richard Wright The Delany Sisters' Book of Everyday Wisdom by Sarah L. Delany The Magnolia Story by Chip Gaines On Writing by Stephen King When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Educated by Tara Westover