This "New York Times" bestseller is the dramatic, inspiring story of three inner-city youths--Samson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt--whose ...
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Jan 29, 2012
Dave
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Part of a program titled, "One School, One Book", at the middle school that employs me, I was shamed by a classroom of 14 year olds into reading this at a much faster pace than I was displaying. So, I put down my books about basketball and New York, and I dedicated a weekend to this story. Three young African-American men recall the story of how they escaped the projects of Newark, New Jersey to become successful adults in the medical profession. This edition was purposely written f
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Dec 06, 2011
Autumn
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Amazing, inspiring story of three men from Newark, New Jersey who now call themselves the Three Doctors, who fought and eventually triumphed over the violence, drugs, and lack of vision that filled their neighborhood to become successful and well-regarded doctors. They made a pact with each other to help each other graduate and succeed in school, and they now serve in the very community they grew up in, actively working to inspire the next generation of children in their neighborhood to become m
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Nov 13, 2011
Lauryn
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The book I read was We Beat the Streets. I would probably give this book a 6. This book was very sympathetic and descriptive but boring. This book didn’t ever catch my eye or always wanted me to keep reading after I was done. On the other hand this book could relate to kids all over the world. I may have not grown up in a bad place of town having to watch my back every minute of the day and knowing anything could happen at any time, everyday kids have to go through that. On the front cover it sa
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Nov 10, 2011
Kyra
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The book "We Beat the Street" by Drs.Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt, along with Sharon M. Draper, is an inspirational story about three boys in the hood of Newark, New Jersey that make a friendship pact and stick together throughout their childhood and through their college and medical school years. I think it is an excellent example for kids all around the world should follow. I loved how the book talks about how they met and how they decided to change their lives fore
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Feb 15, 2010
Nic
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What a great book! I love how seriously it acknowledges the pressures and dangers of life in low-income urban neighborhoods, the temptation to get involved with drugs and crime, and the things that people sometimes do without thinking them through. It also shows good examples of people supporting teens, whether through encouragement, discipline, or forgiveness. I thought it a very strong point that Rameck could have had his dreams derailed at least twice if not for the understanding of people
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Dec 27, 2011
Theresa Leone
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This is a book for middle school/junior high students and easy enough even for them that it can be read in a day. It is the very inspirational story of three guys, all raised in or very near the projects of Newark, New Jersey, who not only go on to college but to medical school. They are all now very successful doctors who give a lot back to the communities from which they came, including giving lectures to students. I only had a couple of issues with the book: one was that one of the guys, at s
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Oct 23, 2010
Saira
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Honestly, this book almost made me cry of joy. It is basically about how three friends, Sampson, Rameck, and George made a pact to stay together throughout the years of college and medical school. As young kids, they endured gang violence, drugs, poverty but most of all, being black. In my opinion, the theme of this book is success because all the boys have a good conscious to study to succeed and to stay out of peer pressure, drugs, and murder. This book teaches a lesson on what happens if you
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Sep 10, 2010
Christianc.1
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Christian Cromartie
We Beat the Street
By Sampson Davis
I gave this book 4 star because of the suspense and challenge these three Doctors experiences in their lives. I liked this book because of what the three doctors went through during their childhood. I also like this book because it's by one of my favorite authors.
Sampson, George, and Ramek all make a pact to get off the streets and be successful. They all had different problems and experiences during there lif More...
We Beat the Street
By Sampson Davis
I gave this book 4 star because of the suspense and challenge these three Doctors experiences in their lives. I liked this book because of what the three doctors went through during their childhood. I also like this book because it's by one of my favorite authors.
Sampson, George, and Ramek all make a pact to get off the streets and be successful. They all had different problems and experiences during there lif More...
Jun 14, 2010
Jessica
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This is a non-fiction account that follows three boys as they try to deal with life on the streets. Each one of them comes from different backgrounds, but they all share a couple of things: A bright mind and a wish to make it out of the dangers that constantly surround them. When the three of them meet at school, they become friends. By coincidence, they attend a lecture about a college that is willing to pay full tuition for any minorities willing to commit to a profession in the medical fie
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Apr 21, 2011
Jaja
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I finished reading this book in a jiffy. This book is very straightforward, very easy to love and, most of all, very friendly to my almond-shaped peepers! Even a fourth grader will appreciate this!
It tells the story of three colored (hope I'm politically correct) kids living in a challenging environment in New Jersey. These things are common in their daily grind: drugs, peer pressure, street crimes, cop sirens and other things often found in gangster movies. While most kids their age More...
It tells the story of three colored (hope I'm politically correct) kids living in a challenging environment in New Jersey. These things are common in their daily grind: drugs, peer pressure, street crimes, cop sirens and other things often found in gangster movies. While most kids their age More...
Apr 09, 2010
Angel
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this book is about three kids named sampson remek and gearge. they beat the streets by becoming doctors. nd they did so by creating a pact that would lead them thru highschool and college and medical school. but mostly thru the years they had to spren living in the streets. they had overcome many challenges thru their first years but they had to do it for the rest of their lives. and that was the hardest part.
i can connect to this book because i am going thru what they are aswell. i live in More...
i can connect to this book because i am going thru what they are aswell. i live in More...
May 20, 2011
Lisa
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Sep 26, 2010
Cjclay97
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We Beat the Streets
The inspirational story we beat the streets was written by author
Sharon draper and collaborated with the three men Rameck Hunt, George
Jenkins and Sampson Davis. In this book it tells you how their life
Was like growing up in the inner city environment where the boys were
Faced with all kinds of challenges like poverty, drugs, and injury.
In spite of all the More...
English L/A
9-10-10
We Beat the Streets
The inspirational story we beat the streets was written by author
Sharon draper and collaborated with the three men Rameck Hunt, George
Jenkins and Sampson Davis. In this book it tells you how their life
Was like growing up in the inner city environment where the boys were
Faced with all kinds of challenges like poverty, drugs, and injury.
In spite of all the More...
Dec 01, 2011
Na'kaila
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The three boys Sampson,George,and Rameck find there self's struggling to live in the streets of Newark,New Jersey, from stilling ,to gang banging ,to even killing each other over the names of the streets.Is all normal for these boys but as they get older they find keeping money in there pockets to help their family,from trying to stay out of the trouble from per pressure not easy to do.But when the boys find each other to doing will when they all make a pack to do better and to stay out of tr
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Aug 27, 2008
Mannie
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This book is actually the book that has my mind focus on College. Its basically talking about 3 friends who grew up together in the inner streets of the ghetto. not all kids from the ghetto grow up to sell drugs. some become doctors all it takes is a little hard work!!
May 03, 2010
I want to be a doctor in the future so this book gave me hope. It shows what three kids from Harlem went through and how their goals were accomplished. Going to college for them was like a dream you have every night, you would have them but most of the time they were unreachable. With them graduating from one of the best programs in the state, it proved to me that even I could become a doctor. I like the way it's formatted, it shows what events they went through and how it led to them becoming d
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Oct 31, 2010
Jose
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i think this book was amazing because 3 Sampson,rameck and George were all poor in a rough neighborhood. they lived of stealing and sometimes had their live endangered . it was weird how they knew each other and went to the same school and met. all of them were good friends and set their goals for them selves. they wanted to be doctors and they achieved it , no one in their family thought they would go far because of their economy and how poor they lived. like in one point one of them could of b
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Apr 11, 2011
Misdajania
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"We Beat the Streets," is biography about three doctors from New Jersey. They all faced hard times growing up in the ghetto. By divine intervention they all were accepted to the same rigorous high school. There they became great friends. Sam, George and Rameck were your avrege teens. One after goofing off in class they were sent to a college presentation. By going to that presentation their lives were forever changed.
I liked this book because I got to read about how three More...
I liked this book because I got to read about how three More...
Dec 04, 2011
Amber
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The new york best time seller was given great reviews by Booklist, publishers weekly and school library journal. Each doctor gave amazing experiences of growing up in Newark, New Jersey. The stories showed how they battled everyday struggles. Dealing with drugs, bad influence, racism, and just being in the wrong place at the wrong time could get them killed. When you first look at this book you think its just going to be another storey of a gang of kids and how they made it. But this jour More...
Nov 12, 2010
Ryan
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This book is about three friends who become three great doctors. It’s about three boys who are from the streets of Newark New Jersey and how all three made a pact all through high school, collage, and medical school. I think this book is about being with each other and never giving up on your dream. It is an autobiography by all three of them. It’s kind of jumps from each person telling them about each other’s lives. The book itself shows tragedy of street life and how still living in bad commun
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Sep 07, 2011
We Beat the Streets is basically about a friendship of three boys who lived is dangerous neighborhood. Growing up all three of the boys was getting into lots of trouble, but one day it finally hit them that they need to get their life turned around. They were always very smart kids, just making bad decisions. Once they got their life together, they went to college and became docters till this day. I really liked this book because i can relate to it very well, because i grew up in a neighbor simi
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Oct 13, 2010
Anthony
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The book I read was we beat the streets. This book is probably by far my favorite book. We beat the streets is a autobiography. The book is about 3 kids who grow up in New Jersey in rough neighborhoods and rough households and all there life they have seen only violence. In their teenage years they are around drugs and guns more violence. But in high school all 3 of them decide to change there life’s around and they decide to make a pact to all become doctors when they grow up. So they go to th
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Aug 19, 2009
Sandra
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A heartwarming quick read about 3 boys growing up in the dangerous neighborhoods of Newark and their pact to become doctors.
The combined format of telling the story from each boy's perspective interwoven with advice for readers and afterthought of the boys as grown men makes this an easy read. While the book tells a good story it does not get too introspective or drawn out. Also, the simple language makes this an accessible book for younger readers.
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The combined format of telling the story from each boy's perspective interwoven with advice for readers and afterthought of the boys as grown men makes this an easy read. While the book tells a good story it does not get too introspective or drawn out. Also, the simple language makes this an accessible book for younger readers.
The book simply tells t More...
Mar 09, 2009
three african americans grew up a hard life in New Jersey, the expierence they had while growing up was very rough, they were best friends living around drugs, violence,gangs and violence. THey struggle to make it through and make it farther then the people of there neighbor hood.After they heard a advertisement for a dental program, They decided that this was there chance to achieve there dream and do better for themselves. They attended together and graduated together. They are now dentist try
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Oct 26, 2009
Ginitze
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the book is about these 3 kids going through a rough neighborhood and for them to survive they have to be tough,brave,and willing to recieve any challenges with any crimes and fights that are coming in there way,and if they dont protect there reputation out there,everyone will attack them and there family and evantually kill them so they must keep there heads high and be strong for anything that comes ahead, but that all changes after a miracle happens and gets them out of there and they become
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Aug 10, 2011
Karl
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One of my old teachers had me pick this one up to review it to see if it as okay for her third graders. Now the best book I've ever encountered at school was "Eragon" and I wasn't sure I'd like this book considering how it looked on the cover and the backstory and how it seemed like a perfect annoying teacher book, however I was pleasantly surprised. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone but if you're in a library looking for books and you see this with nothing else to read you could certa
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Apr 08, 2010
Angel
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This book is awesome! The kids who go through hard lives trying to support their families, meet each other in high school even though Rameck is the oldest between the three,skip class to go play basketball in the gym but a teacher catches them and they go to the library instead and they end up in a doctor,dentist session. Rameck, George, and Sam are now determined to become doctors but George wants to become a dentist. The book will show you that even though have a hard life never give up always
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Apr 27, 2009
Mister Davis
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From the mind of a middle school teacher…
Pre-Reading/Anticipatory Thoughts: I’m new to the YA scene so I’ve never heard of this novel before seeing it on the book list. But after asking around at my school, it seems to be fairly popular. At first when I read the title, I immediately thought of break dancing. I think that popped into my head because of the movie “Beat Street.” After seeing the cover and title together, my thoughts changed and I assumed the book was about how three guy More...
Pre-Reading/Anticipatory Thoughts: I’m new to the YA scene so I’ve never heard of this novel before seeing it on the book list. But after asking around at my school, it seems to be fairly popular. At first when I read the title, I immediately thought of break dancing. I think that popped into my head because of the movie “Beat Street.” After seeing the cover and title together, my thoughts changed and I assumed the book was about how three guy More...
Oct 28, 2008
Gagandeep
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Never in my life have I been inspired to succeed in my life after reading a book, but after reading " We Beat The Street", this completely changed. This book included a plethora of reasons of why someone should read it, but for me, the actual struggles that these three individuals faced, was a prominent reason of why I enjoyed this book.In fact, I finished this book in one sitting, because of the emotion that is compacted through the plot line of the story.
Growing up in New More...
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Dec 22, 2011
Dhakim
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I think you should read this book because it is very inspirational and it talks about how three African-American boys grew up in the rough city of Newark, New Jersey around the 1980's and overcame every obstacle that stoood in their way while growing up, especially drugs. When they later met in high school they made a pact that they would not let "the streets" swallow them up in all of its evil. This gave them the courage to all become great and well known doctors in the future.
