We Beat the Street is nonfiction
The book is about three African American young boys who grew up in a bad neighborhood in New Jersey where there were drugs, crime rates were high, and people were poor. They were smart boys, but they had the struggle of dealing with peer pressure, drug use, and being minorities in a cruel world. They made a pact that they would get out of this situation with help from each other. They applied to pre-med and pre-dentistry programs at Seton Hall University and they all got accepted. The pact they made was to push each other and finish the program together, and that is exactly what they did.
I would recommend this book to all teenagers, but especially to teenage boys. It shows how hard it is for a male growing up without a positive role model, but there is always hope. They went through some of the same things happening with the youth of today. As long as there are friends with the same goals in life and they are there for each other, success is always possible regardless of your background.
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