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Thomas, Angie,

Concrete rose / Angie Thomas. - First edition. - 360 pages ; 22 cm

Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them all financially could leave them all bearing his responsibilities since it endangers his life. It looks like he may have been offered a chance to go straight, but leaving the King Lords won't be easy, and a "real" job has high demand for low return.

ISBN: 9781406384444 9780062846716 006284671X

LCCN: 2020946928

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Teenage fathers--Juvenile fiction.
Gangs--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Teenage fathers--Fiction.
Gangs--Fiction.
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / People & Places / United States / African American.
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Historical / United States / 20th Century.
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Boys & Men.
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Teenage fathers--Juvenile fiction.
Mother-son relationship--Juvenile fiction.
Gangs--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Teenage fathers--Fiction.
Mother-son relationship--Fiction.
Gangs--Fiction.
Adolescence--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Young adult fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Young adult fiction.
Urban fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Novels.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.1.T448 / Co 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 813.6