The book Street Pharm by Allison Van Diepen is a chronicle of the life of a 17 year old drug dealer named Ty Johnson. Ty has taken up his father’s drug dealing business (when his father is sent to prison), but since a young boy, that is what he has wanted to do. He has little interest in what there is to learn in school, as he sees survival in the streets as a more valuable tool. Ty likes the drug trade and the easy money that comes with it, but he begins to realize there might be choices he has to make when he meets and becomes interested in a Alyse young, single mother. Neither she or Ty’s mom know what he does, and they both encourage him to stay in school and get his diploma. Ty is forced with a crucial life altering choice when a rival gang comes in to steal the drug trade--does he stick with the family business and an uncertain future, or does he reach for something more through education and his relationship with Alyse?
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