Street Pharm, written by Alison Van Diepinis based in a pretty dark setting. The book is about 17 year old Tyrone Johnson, taking over his dad’s drug dealing business with his buddies after his dad got caught and put into jail. He is forced to go to a new school, and he has to juggle with his good grades, and his business all at the same time, without getting caught. This novel is based in Brooklyn, New York, and has a pretty dark setting to it. Using small hints and details from this novel, including the front cover, I have learned that it is pretty creepy and dark. Ty doesn’t live in the safest area, and the streets aren’t a pleasant place to be, except for when he’s dealing. The school is for students that need more help than others, and it is filled with security guards, which is another reason to believe it is unsafe, and the fact that there are lots of shootings and scary people in the city. This novel is based in the fall, just as the new school year starts, and Halloween is coming up. The emotional setting is also a bit dark, The atmosphere is almost always in an unsettling mood, Tyrone mostly hangs out with drug addicts and people with uninviting attitudes. There are really only two people in the story that have decent mindsets and good attitude towards other people, that is Alyse, (Ty’s girlfriend), And Ty’s mother, though Ty is sometimes a good person. In conclusion, Street Pharm has both emotional and physical settings, that are not in the best manner, obviously because the book is about drug dealing in a city.

Quote #1: “Once, when I was nine, I went with him to a run-down apartment building in East Flatbush. It was a cold night in January, and I tried to keep my Jordans out of the slush as I got out of the car and followed him up the sidewalk.”-Page 27
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Quote #2: “We got off on the third floor, turning down a gloomy hallway. “Remember, watch where you step in there,” Dad said. “There could be needles or cat crap on the floor.” -Page 27
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Quote #3: “Les Chancellor was in a chewed-up (and spit-out) East New York hood. The grass in front of the school was fenced off, I guess they didn’t trust people to not mess it up.” -Page 31
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Quote #4: When I went inside, and saw the metal detectors and security guards, I knew I was at one of two places: a high school or a prison” -Page 31
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Quote #5: “She lived in the hood, but she was no hood rat. You could tell just by looking at her that she lived clean.” -Page 79
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Quote #6: “By mid-October, I was finding my groove.”-Page 87
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Quote #7: “I knocked at her door at 8 P.M. sharp,”
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Quote #8: “We hopped the 2 train into Manhattan, riding it for half an hour to Columbus Circle.”
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Quote #9: “The apartment was huge, with sleek tiled floors, leather couches.”-Page 107
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Quote #10: “When I walked through the door at 11:30 at night”-Page 114
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