So when he’s offered the chance to go straight, he takes it. But it’s not so easy to sling dope, finish school, and raise a child. Suddenly he has a baby, Seven, who depends on him for everything. Until, that is, Maverick finds out he’s a father. Life’s not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav’s got everything under control.
With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad’s in prison. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. At the end of the novel, after Lisa and Maverick discover that they’re having a girl, Lisa seems somewhat more open to getting romantically involved with Maverick again.International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood. She finds it insulting when Maverick goes to great lengths-such as organizing a surprise tour of her first-choice college-and is willing to admit that he’s doing these things in part to try to win her back. Though she allows Maverick to accompany her to prenatal appointments and accepts his support, she also insists that they’re never going to be romantically involved again. Montgomery kicks Lisa out of the house after she discovers Lisa is pregnant. She also finds herself at odds with her mother, Ms. She decides she’d like to have the baby and raise it herself, and she resents Maverick briefly for assuming that she’d choose to terminate the pregnancy. Lisa returns to Maverick’s life when, right before Thanksgiving, she discovers that she’s pregnant with Maverick’s baby. So it’s confusing for Maverick when, on the day of Dre’s funeral, Lisa takes Maverick back to her house to have unprotected sex-and then when she goes right back to ignoring him. She refuses all of Maverick’s attempts to win her back and goes so far as to block his phone number. She prizes honesty and loyalty, and though she and Maverick were temporarily broken up when Maverick slept with Iesha and conceived Seven, she nevertheless sees this as a major transgression. When she learns about Seven, Lisa feels like Maverick lied to her. Her goal is to attend college, become a pediatrician, and escape Garden Heights. Lisa is a basketball player and is very involved with extracurriculars at her school.
Like Maverick, she’s 17 but unlike Maverick, she attends a private Catholic school across town. Lisa is Maverick’s girlfriend, though she breaks up with him when she discovers that Seven is Maverick’s son.
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