Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Street Pharm




Street Pharm is a a book that pulls you in with a hook, the author Allison van Diepen is a high school teacher. She had spent around three and a half years at one of brooklyns most dangerous high schools. It basicly is about a young adult Ty age seventeen that inherited his fathers business, but this was no ordinary one or legal for a matter of fact. He has been brought into the drug game he was at a young age and he's not just the little man. He refers to himself as king of the streets, and his partner who was really his fathers untill he went to jail. His name is Sonny and there the main people in this drug "biz" even though his mom thinks completly different. His mom thinks that he's nothing like his father that he's not a "gangbanger" waling around the streets doing nothing but trouble. He has had her convinced through so many lies and he seems to have a talent for it. But his mom starts to suspect something when he pretends to be someone he's not to the alternative school he is supposed to be enrolled in, because he couldnt keep up with the regular school. Although his mom doesnt even know that he's supposed to go to an alternative school until she gets the call from them. So his mom suspects things about him but he still has her eating it up. He makes large stack's of cash and probably the one good thing is he doesnt do the drugs. But all starts to go bad when his father old compitition comes around his town and all of these things has been changing the way he looks at what he's doing. It's definitly a most intriguing read and will really tell how expeiriences even if there bad and they are mistakes. they can prove and show that when you learn from them it not only gives makes you a stronger person but starting to do the right thing.

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