7 Ways to Make the Grade - A Living Guide to Your Community's Success is a motivational inspirational self-help book written to advise and guide young people in their quest to make the grade and become successful in their journey through life. You will journey with the author through his childhood as he relates to his loving parents and his brothers and sisters while growing up in one of the many concrete jungles dropped into urban New York's ghettos. The Queensboro housing projects and the thousands of housing project throughout the country are to this day habitats, where only the strong-willed can survive. It was instilled in young Bob Lee that he would be one of the survivors, a leader, a teacher and a role model to all who would listen…and it worked. His father's words and his concern for Bob's well-being were the main contributors that helped shape him into the man he is today.