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When I Was the Greatest

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ISBN-10: 1442459476

ISBN-13: 9781442459472

Edition: 2014

Authors: Jason Reynolds, Michael Frost

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In Bed Stuy, New York, a small misunderstanding can escalate into having a price on your head--even if you're totally clean. This gritty, triumphant debut captures the heart and the hardship of life for an urban teen.A lot of the stuff that gives my neighborhood a bad name, I don't really mess with. The guns and drugs and all that, not really my thing. Nah, not his thing. Ali's got enough going on, between school and boxing and helping out at home. His best friend Noodles, though. Now there's a dude looking for trouble--and, somehow, it's always Ali around to pick up the pieces. But, hey, a guy's gotta look out for his boys, right? Besides, it's all small potatoes; it's not like anyone's…    
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Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Publication date: 1/7/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Michael Frost is professor of evangelism and missions at Morling College in Sydney, Australia, and a Baptist minister. He is the author of Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture and the coauthor of ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church.Alan Hirsch is the founding director of Forge Mission Training Network and a founder of shapevine.com. He is the author of The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church and The Forgotten Ways Handbook.