Concrete Rose

Seventeen-year-old Maverick "Mav" Carter is facing a lot of challenges. His dad was known as Big Don in Garden Heights but he's in prison for drug dealing and has been since Mav was eight. Mav looks up to him and has been following in his footsteps because he's never cared for school and wants to make money, and now that his best friend has been shot, he wants revenge, but learning that he's a dad himself and his girlfriend wants him to stop selling drugs and being in a gang means he has some tough decisions to make. Award-winning author Angie Thomas has published yet another amazing realistic novel with sympathetic characters. Readers will find it hard to put down this book!