Luz Mendez

Luz, a character in  Mother of the Year book, is Thomas Mendez's daughter and she becomes your daughter's best friend. Although she is mentioned in Chapter 2, she is first seen in Chapter 3.

Appearance
Luz has brown eyes, wavy dark brown hair, and tan skin. She wears the premium Bernhardt Academy uniform.

Personality
According to Luz, she has an anger problem for which she is seeing a therapist. When you first meet her, she is protective of your daughter, taking the blame for the fight. She also appears to speak bluntly and is not shy to hide her thoughts and opinions.

Her favorite subject is soccer, but when soccer is pointed out to not be a "subject", she says her favorite subject in school is art. She especially likes sculpting. Like your daughter, she can be a perfectionist, insisting that her father hang her posters exactly two inches apart. In sports, she plays aggressively.

Mother of the Year

 * Chapter 2: Get to Work (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 3: Tough Cookie
 * Chapter 4: Out of the Blue
 * Chapter 5: Ancient History (Mentioned; Physical Appearance Determinant)
 * Chapter 6: Elephant in the Room
 * Chapter 7: Trouble Brewing (Mentioned; Determinant)
 * Chapter 8: Behind the Mask
 * Chapter 9: Empty Nest (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 10: Failure to Launch (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 11: Trial and Error
 * Chapter 12: When It Rains... (Mentioned; Physical Appearance Determinant)
 * Chapter 13: Candles in the Wind
 * Chapter 14: Face the Music (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 15: Trial by Fire
 * Chapter 16: The Aftermath
 * Chapter 17: Liftoff

Thomas
Thomas is Luz's father. He admits to you that Soledad was the Alpha parent of the two of them and that her death has been hard on the both them. He is struggling as a single dad and constantly works late which may contribute to Luz's anger problems. She once made him a demon dragon boy sculpture with two heads but one of the heads broke so she painted the neck like blood.

Your Character
Your Character is initially surprised to learn that she and the daughter are best friends now since the daughter told her that they didn't get along first. You have the option to help Thomas do her hair for which Luz will be grateful since Thomas clearly struggled with the task. Even if you tell Luz that she can call you by your first name, Luz will constantly refer to you as the daughter's mom. If you pursue Thomas as love interest, she and the daughter will make fun of it, especially if they find you kissing. Luz confides in you that she is worried about her father working too much in a premium scene if you take the girls to court to cheer him up. If you officially start dating Thomas and take the premium scene in the final chapter of the book, you two ask the girls what they think of it and both like the thought of becoming sisters should you ever marry. Luz then accidentally already calls you mom, showing her acceptance.

Daughter
When your daughter first arrives at Bernhardt Academy, she tells you that a girl picked on her that day. It isn't until the day before the bake sale that it is revealed that the girl was Luz. In Chapter 3's premium scene, if you decide to have your daughter talk to you about what happened with August and AJ, it is shown that Luz apologized for making fun of her the day before and that Luz pushed August onto the ground when the boy kept insulting your daughter. The two girls bond because of this and become best friends. Luz is shown to be very protective of the daughter throughout the book. If Your Character and Thomas are officially dating, they like the thought of becoming sisters should you ever marry. In the bonus scene at the end of the book, Luz thoroughly checks the ingredients of pizza to see if it contains soy, even though the daughter tells her that she gets a special meal. According to the daughter, Luz does that every day.

August and AJ
Luz says that August sucks and that she hates him. She pushed him on the ground in the cafeteria, and says she would do it again because he was being a jerk to your daughter. She says that AJ is usually okay.

Trivia

 * In Chapter 3, she revealed that her favorite subject in school is Art. She mentions that sculpting is her favorite kind of Art.
 * In Chapter 4, it’s revealed that she’s Mexican-American.
 * In a premium scene, Thomas mentioned that she used to be a striker on her soccer team, but now she plays as a goalie. It was known about her for being too good at scoring goals, so the Coach made her a goalie in order for everyone to enjoy the game equally.
 * In Spanish and Portuguese, "Luz" translates as "light".
 * She dresses as Captain Phasma from the Star Wars franchise for August and AJ's birthday.
 * She shares the same forename as Luz Estrada from Hot Couture.