The Flyy Girls series centers on a quartet of teens attending an arts high school in Harlem, starting with new girl Lux Lawson. Lux joins the student body as a photography major after getting kicked out of several other schools for fighting. She's pissed because her parents divorced, and her dad replaced her and her mother with a new family. Oops--the expulsions get Lux sent to live with Lawsons 2.o, possibly the last stop before military school.

Trying to be a new person, Lux marches up to a group of popular girls and before long is sitting with them at lunch. They think she's a mid-year transfer because she knows someone (partly true), not because of her violent past.

The thing about this novel is that it's a novella. So short! What a great way to get yourself back into reading, if you've been struggling. I read #1 and #2 in a day each.