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

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... Read Full Review

This book is a great learning tool for any kid to read. It is a true story and the three men that the book talked about are great mentors. I did a mentor program for these three men and it was great.

Reading "We Beat The Street" should be a mandatory high school requirement. Based on "The Pact," this book makes an effort to grab students by the hand and show them how to be successful through beautifully written memoir. The book explores race, correctional institutions, the issues regarding class status and college experience, as well as the nature of a citizen's responsibility to their community. I am excited to teach... Read Full Review

I was pleased to see such a great "non-fiction" book on the New York Times's Bestselling list. I was looking for a fiction book at the time, but bought this one instead. This is an inspiring story of how three boys beat the odds in life, what inspired the changes in them, and how they overcame their obstacles. It's so well-written and edited that children will have no trouble understanding the message of hope it conveys. If... Read Full Review

An inspiring account of three inner city boys who succeed in overcoming the odds, entering college, and fulfilling their dreams, "We Beat the Street" is a marvelous work. Written for kids, this book selects incidents from the lives of each of the three doctors in order to illustrate the great obstacles they had to surmount and the truth that street life won't pay off in the end. The reader follows Sampson, George, and Rameck... Read Full Review