Girl on Fire
by Alicia Keys
Publisher: Harper Collins
Imprint: Harper Alley
Release date: March 1, 2022
ISBN: 9780063029569
Lolo Wright’s life is pretty ordinary. She may live in the Monroe Housing Projects with her father, brother, and maternal grandmother, but she’s going places. She’s taking AP courses and doing well in school, and sure, she misses her mother, but she doesn’t lack love. She’s just keeping her head down until she graduates. It’s not until she and her brother are accosted by a pair of cops in a case of mistaken identity and her brother is roughed up that she discovers she has an untapped superpower. Faced with temptations to use that power on bullies, she manages to keep it in check until the neighborhood drug dealer wants to use her abilities to protect his drug and “protection” businesses.
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