Posted on 09/09/06
Drugs and violence, but no glory at all
Street PharmBy Allison van DiepenSimon Pulse, 297 pages, $9.50Why should we care about Ty Johnson, a 17-year-old "street pharmacist" who supplies dealers in his Brooklyn ghetto with crystal meth, cocaine and other drugs? In Allison van Diepen's first young-adult novel, the answer is found in how eagerly we turn the pages. When Ty's father is banished to prison, the family drug "empire" faces ruin, so Ty takes over. The options were few: flipping burgers or raking in thousands of dollars in cash a week from peddling drugs.
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