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2 Reviews
Davis, Sampson
, Jenkins, George
& Hunt, Rameck
We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success
(3)
YA
With Sharon M. Draper. In Draper's adaptation of the adult book, The Pact, three childhood friends tell the inspiring story of how they avoided drugs, gangs, and violence in their Newark, New Jersey, neighborhoods By supporting each other, they grow up to become medical doctors. Never didactic or preachy, the book is frank, personal, and frequently riveting.
Reviewer: Ed Spicer
(4)
1-3
A gardener, Loretta nurtures her apple trees, hoping someday for ripe fruit, while Delmore, her son, practices hitting a baseball, hoping someday for a fair ball. Zagwÿn develops her story through art and repetitive narrative, so the reader sees the parallels between the goals of mother and son. The cheerful, if somewhat overlong, story is illustrated in the golds and greens of summer days.
Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth
2 reviews
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