When I was the greatest

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Author:
Reynolds, Jason
Publisher:
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Publication Date:
[2014]
Edition:
First edition
Language:
English
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Ali lives in Bed-Stuy, a Brooklyn neighborhood known for guns and drugs, but he and his sister, Jazz, and their neighbors, Needles and Noodles, stay out of trouble until they go to the wrong party, where one gets badly hurt and another leaves with a target on his back.

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African Americans
African Americans -- Fiction
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Conduct of life
Conduct of life -- Fiction
Families
Families -- New York (State) -- Brooklyn -- Fiction
Neighborhoods
Neighborhoods -- Fiction
Siblings
Siblings -- Fiction
Violence
Violence -- Fiction

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ISBN:
9781442459489
9781442459472
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Lexile measure:
740L

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