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If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad’s in prison. | If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad’s in prison. | ||
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When King Lord blood runs through your veins, though, you can't just walk away. Loyalty, revenge, and responsibility threaten to tear Mav apart, especially after the brutal murder of a loved one. He’ll have to figure out for himself what it really means to be a man. | When King Lord blood runs through your veins, though, you can't just walk away. Loyalty, revenge, and responsibility threaten to tear Mav apart, especially after the brutal murder of a loved one. He’ll have to figure out for himself what it really means to be a man. | ||
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| + | One of Angie Thomas’ greatest strengths is her ability to create full, rich, complex characters. Concrete Rose offers a new glimpse into the life of Maverick, Starr’s father from '''[[The Hate U Give]]''', and this was a wonderful perspective to explore. This novel is much quieter in tone, but no less powerful. [[Concrete Rose]] is the story of a Black teenage boy in the late 90s and the mistakes he makes, but also the resilience he has to pave his way towards a brighter future for himself and his growing family. It’s not particularly common in YA for stories about teen dads, which is yet another reason why this novel is so unique and important. This is a novel you won’t want to miss out on. | ||
==Other Similar Books== | ==Other Similar Books== | ||
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American History > Modern Age > African American History
If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad’s in prison.
Life’s not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav’s got everything under control.
Until, that is, Maverick finds out he’s a father.
Suddenly he has a baby, Seven, who depends on him for everything. But it’s not so easy to sling dope, finish school, and raise a child. So when he’s offered the chance to go straight, he takes it. In a world where he’s expected to amount to nothing, maybe Mav can prove he’s different.
When King Lord blood runs through your veins, though, you can't just walk away. Loyalty, revenge, and responsibility threaten to tear Mav apart, especially after the brutal murder of a loved one. He’ll have to figure out for himself what it really means to be a man.
Sarah's Review
One of Angie Thomas’ greatest strengths is her ability to create full, rich, complex characters. Concrete Rose offers a new glimpse into the life of Maverick, Starr’s father from The Hate U Give, and this was a wonderful perspective to explore. This novel is much quieter in tone, but no less powerful. Concrete Rose is the story of a Black teenage boy in the late 90s and the mistakes he makes, but also the resilience he has to pave his way towards a brighter future for himself and his growing family. It’s not particularly common in YA for stories about teen dads, which is yet another reason why this novel is so unique and important. This is a novel you won’t want to miss out on.
Other Similar Books
Other suggestions on the subject of African American History.
- The 1619 Project: Born on the Water (by: Hannah-Jones, Nikole, Watson, Renee, LE, MG)
- All Different Now: Junteenth, the First Day of Freedom (by: Johnson, Angela, LE)
- A Book, Too, Can Be a Star (by: Jones Voiklis, Charlotte, LE, MG)
- I Have a Dream (by: Nelson, Kadir, LE, MG)
- Henry's Freedom Box (by: Levine, Ellen, LE)
- Martin's Big Words (by: Rappaport, Doreen, LE, MG)
- Finding Langston (by: Cline-Ransome, Lesa, MG)
- We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March (by: Levinson, Cynthia, MG, UMG)
- Eliza's Freedom Road: An Underground Railroad Diary (by: Nolen, Jerdine, MG)
- Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? (by: Levinson, Cynthia, MG)
- The Lucky Ones (by: Williams Jackson, Linda, MG, UMG)
- Black Heroes of the American Revolution (by: Davis, Burke, UMG, MG)
- The Harlem Renaissance: An Interactive History Adventure (by: Lassieur, Allison, MG)
- Root Magic (by: Royce, Eden, MG, UMG)
- Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre (by: Boston Weatherford, Carole, MG)
- A Voice of Her Own: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet (by: Lasky, Kathryn, MG)
- Answering the Cry for Freedom (by: Woelfle, Gretchen, MG, UMG)
- In the Shadow of Liberty (by: Davis, Kenneth C., MG, UMG)
- The Underground Abductor (by: Hale, Nathan, MG, UMG)
- Freewater (by: Luqman-Dawson, Amina, MG)
- Through My Eyes (by: Bridges, Ruby, MG, UMG)
- One Crazy Summer (by: Williams-Garcia, Rita, MG, UMG)
- Ophie's Ghosts (by: Ireland, Justina, MG, UMG)
- My Name is Phillis Wheatley (by: Cooper, Afua, MG)
- Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (by: Hoose, Phillip, UMG, YA)
- The Burning (Young Readers Edition) (by: Beard, Hilary, Madigan, Tim, UMG, YA)
- The Rock and the River (by: Magoon, Kekla, UMG, YA)
- The Harlem Hellfighters (by: Myers, Walter Dean, UMG, YA)
- Two Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the Civil War (by: Sheinkin, Steve, YA, UMG)
- Troublemaker (by: Cho, John, UMG)
- Never Caught, The Story of Ona Judge (by: Armstrong Dunbar, Erica, UMG)
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (by: Reynolds, Jason, Kendi, Ibram X., UMG, YA)
- The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks: Young Readers' Edition (by: Theoharris, Jeanne, UMG, YA)
- Day of Tears (by: Lester, Julius, UMG, YA)
- We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding our Racial Divide (by: Anderson, Carol, Bolden, Tonya, UMG, YA)
- One Big Open Sky (by: Cline-Ransome, Lesa, UMG, YA)
- Betty Before X (by: Shabazz, Ilyasah, UMG)
- Elijah of Buxton (by: Curtis, Christopher Paul, UMG)
- Midnight Without a Moon (by: Williams Jackson, Linda, UMG)
- Juba!: A Novel (by: Myers, Walter Dean, UMG)
- Freedom's Children (by: Levine, Ellen S., UMG, YA)
- Jefferson's Sons: A Founding Father’s Secret Children (by: Brubaker Bradley, Kimberly, UMG, YA)
- Stella by Starlight (by: Draper, Sharon M., UMG)
- Wolf by the Ears (by: Rinaldi, Ann, UMG, YA)
- Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship (by: Freedman, Russell, UMG, YA)
- Seven for a Secret (by: Faye, Lyndsay, YA, A)
- The Port Chicago 50 (by: Sheinkin, Steve, YA)
- Marooned in the Arctic: The True Story of Ada Blackjack, the "Female Robinson Crusoe" (by: Caravantes, Peggy, YA, A)
- Copper Sun (by: Draper, Sharon M., YA)
- Crossing Ebenezer Creek (by: Bolden, Tonya, YA, A)
- Junie (by: Eckstine, Erin Crosby, YA, A)
- Kindred (by: Butler, Octavia E., YA, A)
- Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II (by: Mullenbach, Cheryl, YA, A)
- Homegoing (by: Gyasi, Yaa, YA, A)
- This Noble Woman: Myrtilla Miner and Her Fight to Establish a School for African American Girls in the Slaveholding South (by: Greenburg, Michael M., YA, A)
- And We Rise (by: Martin, Erica, YA, A)
- The Davenports (by: Marquis, Krystal, YA, A)
- Angel of Greenwood (by: Pink, Randi, YA, A)
- Code Name Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent (by: Cornioley, Pearl Witherington, YA, A)
- Saving Savannah (by: Bolden, Tonya, YA, A)
- Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream (by: Imani, Blair, YA, A)
- Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts (by: Hall, Rebecca, YA, A)
- Concrete Rose (by: Thomas, Angie, YA, A)
- Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History (by: Getz, Trevor R., YA, A)
- Speak Out in Thunder Tones (by: Sterling, Dorothy, YA, A)
- The Many Faces of Josephine Baker: Dancer, Singer, Activist, Spy (by: Caravantes, Peggy, YA, A)
- Inventing Victoria (by: Bolden, Tonya, YA, A)
- The Reformatory (by: Due, Tananarive, YA, A)
- Mare's War (by: Davis, Tanita S., YA)
- For Lamb (by: Cline-Ransome, Lesa, YA, A)
- The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave's Journey from Bondage to Freedom (by: Walker, David F., YA, A)
- The Color Purple (by: Walker, Alice, YA, A)
- She Takes a Stand: 16 Fearless Activists Who Have Changed the World (by: Ross, Michael Elsohn, YA, A)
- The Hate U Give (by: Thomas, Angie, YA, A)
- Take My Hand (by: Perkins-Valdez, Dolen, A)
- Ring Shout (by: Clark, P. Djeli, A)
- Lone Women (by: LaValle, Victor, A)
- Harlem Rhapsody (by: Murray, Victoria Christopher, A)
- Riot Baby (by: Onyebuchi, Tochi, A)
- The Filling Station (by: Miller, Vanessa, A)
- James (by: Everett, Percival, A)