HiLo YA sampler of a series.

Book one of the series Flyy Girls. Lux is expelled after caught fighting with a fellow student. She has already been in trouble due to her temper so her mother and father decide it’s best that she go live with her father attend a new school. Her father ex military and has just had a new baby, which is main reason Lux is so angry. Lux is trying to start over. If she can’t make things work at her new school— Harlem’s Augusta Savage School of the Arts— the next stop is military school. At her new school, Lux encounters a group of girls named the Flyy girls, based on a series of pranks they have played.

This was a fast paced introduction to a series. It was engaging and exciting. I think it is good series for teens and preteens because it covers a variety of topics such as bullying, family dynamics, and anger issues.

I would recommend this book.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this digital ARC provided in exchange for my honest review.

A great, quick read for anyone looking for a good YA short story to read. It’s part of a mini series of books being released by Penguin Teen and a big shoutout to Penguin Teen for sending me a copy of the ebook to read! I’m definitely looking forward to reading book 2!

Very quick and easy read not too many pages but still an amazing story. Loved the plot and love that each book focuses on a different girl so I can learn more about everybody as time goes on

I thought this was a great, quick read. It frustrated me that her parents lacked faith in her at all and didn’t even ask her side of things, but I also know plenty of parents like that, so I can’t say that was all that shocking. I enjoyed this. Looking forward to the next one.

This series about a group of talented black women attending an art school in Harlem and enjoying a wide variety of artistic disciplines is sure to be a hit with young viewers. As part of the #BitAboutBooks Winter Reading Challenge, 2 Books by Same Author, I read Lux: The New Girl #1 (Flyy Girls) and am looking forward to diving into the sequel. Lux struggles with anger management, has a father who recently started a new family, and faces several challenges at school (including bullying and fights). As Lux is introduced, she is in the midst of a confrontation with a girl who has been bullying her; Lux is suspended and her mother, at her wit's end, sends Lux to live with her Dad with the warning that if this new school does not work out, she would be sent to military school. Drama ensues as Lux learns to adjust to life with her father. Easy on the eyes and the brain.

A fun and quick read perfect for hauling yourself out of a reading slump! Lux is so interesting and real.

I am really excited to read this series of different girls in one group who seem like they can get away with anything. It's a story that we all have seen in our own lives looking at others and thinking how perfect they are, when really no one is perfect. I can't wait for more!

This was a great start to the series. I liked seeing Lux make some progress, with herself, with her dad, and liked the idea that we can make mistakes and start anew. Really liked the progression of the novel & I am excited to read the second book in the series!

I loved this book, I could not put it down! Lux is an incredilby well-developed character with a solid character arc and a well-paced, interesting story. This is the first book in this series - focusing on a young girl by the name of Lux who has some serious anger management issues after her father leaves. Once she gets into a physical altercation she's sent to a new school. While there she meets a group of girls known as the flyy girls. I immediately read the second when I finished this! I can't wait for the others.

This was an intriguing start to a new series about young high school girls in a high school for the arts in NYC. I hope I will learn more about Lux in the future books, as this one was only a quick look at her life. I enjoyed the various themes addressed in the book including divorce, friendships, bullying, fighting, and anger. Lux is a photographer, which I especially love in book characters!

This story is about Lux, who is sent to live with her father after getting in too many fights at her old school. She has to adjust to living with the parent who left her and her mom to start a new family, as well as the fallout from her own actions at her past school, all while trying to figure out how to make and keep friends in her new school.
This story was a very refreshing quick read, with just enough time to get to know Lux and understand what she's going through, in a kind of bite sized way. Even though it was short, it packed an emotional punch, and Lux's frustration, pain, and anger were all so understandable and genuine. I really enjoyed this story and can't wait to read the next one.

3.5 Stars
This was an enjoyable read, and I really liked the concepts we dealt with while following Lux. I appreciated how the book explored things like dealing with your parents divorce and also the feeling of abandonment that can come about because of it. I do wish that that aspect was dealt with a little more, but this is a short book so I understand why it had the time that it had. I also really liked seeing Lux make new friends and develop the understandings that come with that. I liked the incorporation of her photography and the fact that this is mainly set at an arts school also made the reading experience more fun.

I did have an issue with the major "conflict" that happened towards the end of the book. I know double jeopardy doesn't exactly hold for punishments between parents and their kids, but in this case it didn't make any sense at all to me as to why Lux was being punished for essentially the same thing twice, and that part really annoyed me while reading.

Overall this was a short quick read, I liked reading it, and would recommend it.

LUX: The new girl #1
By: Ashley Woodfolk

Lux is a part of the four book Flyy Girls series about four Harlem High School students dealing with themes about friendship, family, coming-of-age stories and love.

In this book #1, Lux Lawson is struggling every since her dad left their family to just stay in school. She is on her last chance with Harlem's Augusta Savage School of the Arts. Make it there or Lux is off to military school. All Lux has to do is stay out of trouble and be nice.

I found that the writing is incredible easy to read, it will definitely immerse you into the story and I can see how young adults of all ages will enjoy the series and find a connection with any one of these Flyy girls to look up to and understand some of their similar struggles and challenges. I think that the story was well told, quick and fun reads.

I really enjoyed this one and cannot wait to get a hold of the other three books in the series.

Oh, what a delight this book was to read. These are small short quick reads that pack a lot in them. You read the first page and the story is off and running and you don't want to put the book down. I adored Lux and her friends at her new school. The dynamics of her family were also very well-written. I think this story about Lux is so relatable for so many young people and I think it would be a great classroom read.

Thank you Penguin Teen for this advance reading copy.

After reading When You Were Everything, I knew Ashley Woodfolk could write characters. It was still so impressive to read Lux's story -- she's such a fully developed character, she has a solid arc, and her story was both interesting and well paced... all in such a short space! I loved the way the story was both serious and fun; Ashley always manages to find just the right balance. This was a great intro to the Flyy Girls. After finishing this one, I immediately dove into book two! Thank you Penguin Teen for a free advanced digital copy of the book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

I thought this was a great hi/lo book- a book that was written to cover serious topics and be appealing to older teens while remaining accessible for readers at different reading levels or possibly reluctant readers. I can definitely see myself recommending this book to several of my teen clients/students. Overall this was a great book that introduced many important topics that teens are going to be able to relate to.

Thank you so much Penguin Teen for not only sending my the electronic ARC and the physical copies. This book was short sweet and is perfect to read at this time. I highly suggest this book especially if you want to read something quick and culturally appropriate right now. The characters are very rich especially for it to be so short.

Lux the New Girl is the first book in a new YA contemporary series about the “flyy girls”–the four low-key queens of the Augusta Savage School for the Arts, and this novella-length story packs a lot into a mere 144 pages. This first installment follows the titular character Lux Lawson, an aspiring photographer with a less-than-ideal disciplinary record. She’s been expelled from every school she’s attended for fighting, and Augusta Savage is a last-ditch effort for her after her mom pulls some strings to get her admitted. Normally, I struggle with “bad girl” characters, but Lux lashes out at her bullies and, honestly, I get it. I was bullied in school as well, and there were definitely times where I wanted to physically wound my tormentors and I never did. Woodfolk also sensitively tackles the other factors that add to Lux’s struggle, including the fact that her parents are divorced, that she has a new half-sister who takes up all of her dad’s attention, that she has to move. So many people are going to relate to Lux’s story, and I’m glad that it exists.

What I really love, though, is that beyond her history of violence, Lux is genuinely passionate about photography. It’s something that’s really personal to her, and I liked that Lux had a soft side. Overall, this was a great story about second chances, the company one keeps, and the crosses that we all bear.

This book was so incredibly engaging. I sat and read the entire thing in one sitting. I teach high school students who often have lower reading levels and I would recommend this book to them in a heartbeat. Can't wait to see the rest of the series.

This book was so much better than I expected it to be. I actually put it off for a while, afraid it wouldn't live up to the hype I created for it in my head. Upon finding some friends who were also gifted with this arc, awe got together (via instagram) and had a buddy read book club. Once I started reading this book, I couldn't pu tip down from the begging to the end I loved it. This is a book I would recommend to all the teens I know!.