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Ashley Woodfolk

Ashley Woodfolk

Ashley Woodfolk is a Brooklyn-based author of fiction for children and teenagers. Across standalone novels, the Flyy Girls series, picture books, and collaborative projects, her work examines friendship, grief, family, Black adolescence, and queer love.

Photo: Ashley Woodfolk via official author site · Source: About — Ashley Woodfolk ↗

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Years covered2021–2022

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Tobyn: The It Girl

2021 · Contemporary

1 edition: Print · 2021

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Meet the Flyy Girls. The group of girls who seem like they can get away with anything. Veteran author Ashley Woodfolk pens a gorgeous and dynamic series of four Harlem high-schoolers, each facing a crossroads of friendship, family, and love. Tobyn Wolfe knows she's destined to be a rock star. She sings, she dances, and she's got that "It" factor. Her dreams are even closer within her reach when she meets Maybe Someday--an incredible all-female band--during a night out with her older sister, Devyn. Joining their band would be the perfect way to show off her amazing vocals. It's too bad her mom can't see this. She wants Tobyn to go to college and become a serious musician, not follow in Devyn's footsteps and wind up a struggling artist. Can Tobyn prove to her mom that she knows what's best, or will her dreams end up becoming a horrible nightmare? With simply stated text and compelling characters, Flyy Girls is a series that's perfect for readers of any level.

Print · 2021 · English

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Noelle: The Mean Girl

2021 · Contemporary

2 editions: Print · 2021 | eBook · 2021

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Meet the Flyy Girls. The group of girls who seem like they can get away with anything. Veteran author Ashley Woodfolk pens a gorgeous and dynamic series of four Harlem high-schoolers, each facing a crossroads of friendship, family, and love. There are only three things that matter to Noelle Lee: her family, school, and the cello. She doesn't care if people see her as selfish or mean because she knows she has her priorities in order. That's why when her dad loses his job, Noelle doesn't hesitate to work more hours at her grandparents' restaurant. Seeing her girls and dealing with her ex-boyfriend have to take a backseat so she can help her family and prepare for her school's fall showcase. But things get more complicated when Noelle realizes she can't stop thinking about Tobyn, one of the other Flyy Girls. With her bad attitude getting even worse, Noelle starts to wonder if working hard even matters, especially if she can't keep her life from falling apart around her. With simply stated text and compelling characters, Flyy Girls is a series that's perfect for readers of any level.

Print · Penguin · 2021 · English

eBook · Penguin · 2021 · English

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Nothing Burns as Bright as You

2022 · Contemporary

2 editions: Print · 2022 | eBook · 2022

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Five starred reviews! From New York Times bestselling author Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Bright as You is an impassioned stand-alone tale of queer love, grief, and the complexity of female friendship. Two girls. One wild and reckless day. Years of tumultuous history unspooling like a thin, fraying string in the hours after they set a fire. They were best friends. Until they became more. Their affections grew. Until the blurry lines became dangerous. Over the course of a single day, the depth of their past, the confusion of their present, and the unpredictability of their future is revealed. And the girls will learn that hearts, like flames, aren’t so easily tamed. It starts with a fire. How will it end? Sapphic Romance: An all-consuming, earth-shattering love story between two girls who can’t stay away from each other, even when they know they should. Best Friends to Lovers: They were inseparable. Then one kiss changed everything, blurring the lines between friendship and a dangerous, all-consuming obsession. Angsty Romance: Told over the course of a single, reckless day, their tumultuous past unravels in a flood of passion and pain. Toxic Relationship: Fire and water, burning and freezing. Their love is a beautiful, destructive force, and when they set a fire, it’s a metaphor for their entire relationship. Heartbreak: A poignant exploration of what happens when love isn’t enough, written with the raw, lyrical honesty that only a novel in verse can capture.

Print · 2022 · English

eBook · HarperCollins · 2022 · English

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More About Ashley Woodfolk

Ashley Woodfolk is a Brooklyn-based author of more than ten books for children and teens. A Rutgers graduate, she worked in children's book publishing for over a decade before writing full time.

Her novels return to the relationships that shape adolescence: friendship and its endings, grief, music, family, Black identity, and queer love. In an interview about When You Were Everything, Woodfolk described friendship breakups as important relationships that young-adult fiction rarely treats with the same weight as romance.

Woodfolk's catalog ranges from The Beauty That Remains and Nothing Burns as Bright as You to the Flyy Girls series, the picture book Beach Hair, coauthored novels, and the multi-author projects Blackout, Whiteout, and Breakout.

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  1. Ashley Woodfolk — official website ↗
  2. About — Ashley Woodfolk ↗
  3. Ashley Woodfolk — Candlewick Press ↗
  4. Books by Ashley Woodfolk — Kirkus Reviews ↗
  5. Ashley Woodfolk — Penguin Random House ↗
  6. Read Me — Call Your Girlfriend ↗
  7. Debut Author Interview: Ashley Woodfolk and The Beauty That Remains ↗
  8. Ashley Woodfolk — TeachingBooks ↗
  9. Random House Children's Books Celebrates Our Stars of 2020 ↗
  10. Opening My Eyes Underwater | Ashley Woodfolk ↗
  11. Blackout (Italian Edition) -- Angie Thomas, Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon ↗
  12. Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon presents Whiteout ↗
  13. #ItsPersonal Podcast IV 104. Ashley Woodfolk 's day in the life, being a momma, NEW BOOKS! ↗
  14. From Gossip Girl to the Tomcat Tea, Teen Drama and Gossip lives on in Louder Than Words - with Ashley Woodfolk ↗
  15. Ashley Woodfolk — selected portrait asset ↗