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	Reynolds, Jason. WHEN I WAS THE GREATEST New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2014 IL YA ISBN 1442459476
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews	Ali and his friends, brothers Noodles and Needles, refuse to be defined by the stereotypes in their Brooklyn neighborhood. Ali keeps busy by learning to box, just as Noodles does reading comic books, and Needles gets his name not from any type of injection but from the knitting needles he carries to help control the symptoms of Tourette’s Syndrome. Despite their good intentions, what will happen when the three find themselves in a dangerous situation at an exclusive party?   (Booktalk by the Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Committee)
	SUBJECTS:     African Americans -- Fiction.                         Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.                         Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.                         Conduct of life -- Fiction.                         Family life -- New York (State)                         New York -- Fiction.                         Neighborhoods -- Fiction.                         Urban fiction.                         Violence -- Fiction.

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