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Street Boys: 7 Kids. 1 Estate. No Way Out. The True Story of a Lost Childhood (Hardcover)

by Tim Pritchard (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Harper Element (3 Mar 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007271298
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007271290
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.6 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 154,042 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Powerful and moving.' Mothers Against Guns

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The moving true story of 7 young kids and their struggle to escape a life of gangs and violence. 'Eight years old. That's when life went downhill. From eight years old nobody looked after me. I just lived on the street and made do by myself. There was no one except me and my friends.' Simon This is the story of Elijah (JaJa), Simon (Phat Si), 'Bloods', Nathan (Inch), Michael (Birdie), Byron (Ribz), and Darren (Tempman). These 7 young boys each have one thing in common -- they grew up on the Angell Town estate, south London. Phat Si comes home from school one day to find his mother gone, so he takes to the streets. He's 8 years old. JaJa looks out of his kitchen window and sees drug dealers, pimps and whores. Overwhelmed by what he sees, JaJa slowly descends from petty theft to life as a kid in a street gang. Ribz's mother sells crack and is sent to prison. He doesn't know who his father is but is drawn to Angell Town, knowing that his dad has an unknown number of kids living on the estate. He's determined to find some kind of family.Street Boys tells a powerful and important true story of courage, determination and hope -- of creating a family from your friends and starting again when the world seems against you.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars where do we go from here, 21 Jun 2008
By S. Pantry (UK) - See all my reviews
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this book is a cry for help from our children who just want to survive in a system that is all to ready to label them as mad and bad. The evidence in this book should empower all of us especially parents to learn where the pitfalls are while raising our children.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Stay With It, 14 April 2008
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As Tim Pritchard writes in his preface 'Stay With It'. This is not a voyeuristic book about poor housing, drugs and violence. It's honest, well written and tells an important story. I couldn't put it down.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Compelling Education..., 1 April 2008
My own experience is so far from that of the Street Boys. As a result it was enlightening but also frightening to understand the environment and effects of that environment on those who grow up in a place where survival is only objective, and before even being a teenager? Yet this is in a city as prosperous as London.....
Not only is the story a compelling read, but must rate as a research work for anyone contemplating where solutions might lie to one of our generation's most difficult problems.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Touching True Story
This book gives us a firsthand retelling of events that may be typical in inner city societies in the UK today. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars eye opening
This book really opens your eyes to whats going on in inner city estates.
Full of dramatic pace it is a real page turner as well as providing real insight. Read more
Published 15 months ago by G. Barden

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is important!
This first hand account of the lives of seven young boys growing up in chaos on an estate in Brixton is an eye-opening read. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Lindy Lane

5.0 out of 5 stars Compelling and important reading
As a mother of 2 and soon to be 3 children I felt compelled to read this book after watching Tim Pritchards interview on Sky TV a couple of weeks ago. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Sarah Rippetoe

5.0 out of 5 stars Compelling stuff...
This important book contributes significantly to our understanding of the gang phenomenon in the UK's inner cities. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Simply ...an amazing story
This is the type of book which will stay in you forever. What would I have done myself if my mother has left me at 8 ??? Read more
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I didn't think i'd be interested in a book about street gangs but this one really delves deep into the characters of 7 of the kids who make up the gang. Read more
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