| Street Pharm | 
 enlarge | Author: Allison Van Diepen
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 29715
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.7 x 3.2
ISBN: 1416911545
EAN: 9781416911548
ASIN: 1416911545
Publication Date: July 11, 2006
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If a brother wanna get ahead, he gotta use every minute to better himself. Everything I did made me better -- tougher, stronger, richer, smarter -- or I didn't do it. Take high school. A waste of time. Nobody there taught me what I needed to survive on the streets.... Ty Johnson knows survival. Since inheriting his pop's business at sixteen, Ty's developed smarts, skills, and mad discipline. The supply game's in his blood. And life is pretty sweet when you're on top. But one slip -- or one serious competitor -- and life turns ugly fast. Suddenly, Ty's got to rethink his whole strategy. And for the #1 dealer on the streets, strategy is not just about staying ahead. It's about survival.
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i love ittttttt July 23, 2007
i really love this book a lot. I read it only one day because i liked it so much. i love that is about real issues and about a kid around my age. But it's also amazing only 17 being on top of the drug game! now that's hard to find in real life. but i like that it's so realistic to make you feel that you're really there, and you're always hanging back on the last sentence to see what happens next. It's a book you don't ever want to put down. The author says this is her 1st novel, so i'm looking forward for more books to come from her.
Street Pharm Fabulous March 10, 2007
I thought that this book was outstanding because of the honesty it had. I enjoyed reading about real life things and something that I could relate to because of the boy's age.
Courtesy of Teens Read Too November 26, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ty Johnson knows how to survive in the real world, to take care of problems on the spot. He has everything in control and knows the way to run things. He's intelligent, patient, and skillful, everything he needs when he inherited his father's business. Everything is running smoothly for Ty and that's the way he wants it.
But then a series of struggles and obstacles ruins the way Ty does things. Not only does he have to take care of a competitor who wants to run him out of business, but he has to deal with school, the only thing his mother wants him to focus on. That could be especially difficult when a girl like none other, Alyse, enters his life and makes him feel happy for once. The hardest part is trying to hide from his mother, and almost everyone new he meets, that he is involved in dealing drugs, the business that Ty's mother hoped to forget after Ty's father went to prison for it.
Ty starts to question every action he does, from the moment he entered the business. With so many problems to handle, can Ty get through it all?
Allison van Diepen takes on a risky plot that so many teens have heard about, but never knew much about, and pulls the reader in. STREET PHARM is a true coming-of-age story that causes the reader to be at the edge of their seat, quickly turning pages, and in the end wanting more. A quick, fast-paced read that is necessary for all teens to read.
Reviewed by: Randstostipher "tallnlankyrn" Nguyen
An excellent urban thriller October 5, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"Street Pharm" is an excellent novel,especially for teenage males.It's
the gritty,powerful story of a young and very successful drug dealer who
decides to change his life.The book is violent and raw,but brilliantly
written with fully developed characters.It is an astonishing debut by
a talented new author.I can't wait to see what she does next!
 Excellent September 29, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am adult who enjoys reading good teen lit and this book qualifies. While I did not really care for Ty in the beginning of the book, you can slowly see his progression into "the real world" and it is a joy to go through it with him.
I also liked the honest look at the street life and the fact that the author did not make it sound like a romantic thing.
The writing is good and the storyline goes at a steady stream. I would be interested in reading a second book in this series to find out how Ty and Alyse make on and how Ty deasl with his father.
The only thing that would have made this book better would have been if it had been a true story.
This is an enjoyable read.
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