Friday, January 15, 2021

Lux: The New Girl (Flyy Girls) by Ashley Woodfolk - OPTIONAL

Lux: The New Girl (Flyy Girls) by Ashley Woodfolk
, 141 pages. HI-LO. Penguin Workshop, 2020. $16. 

Language: PG-13 (15 swears); Mature Content PG-13; Violence: PG-13 

BUYING ADVISORY: HS - OPTIONAL 

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE 

Lux is new to the Augusta Savage School of the Arts in Harlem. She was lucky to be accepted since she got kicked out of her last school for fighting and breaking another girl’s nose. Lux wants to break into the popular group, the Flyy girls, but her plans could be derailed if videos of her fight surface. 

 Lux has a lot of issues, but they seem to wrap up almost too neatly. The length of the book is both its strength and its weakness: a fast read, but hard to flesh out character and plot development. There is use of sexual language. 

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