Concrete rose

From international phenomenon Angie Thomas comes a hard-hitting return to Garden Heights with the story of Maverick Carter; Starr’s father; set seventeen years before the events of the award-winning The Hate U Give.

With his King Lord dad in prison and his mom working two jobs; seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter helps the only way he knows how slinging drugs. Life's not perfect; but he's got everything under control. Until he finds out he's a father...

Suddenly it's not so easy to deal drugs and finish school with a baby dependent on him for everything. So when he's offered the chance to go straight; he takes it. But when King Lord blood runs through your veins; you don't get to just walk away.