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e.E. Charlton-Trujillo
Raised in small-town south Texas Mexican American filmmaker and writer e.E. Charlton-Trujillo has been described as “a force of nature” by Kirkus Reviews. e. is the author of several books for teens and children, notably Fat Angie, a Stonewall Award Winner and Lambda Literary Finalist, and Prizefighter en Mi Casa, winner of the Delacorte Dell Yearling Award and the Parents’ Choice Silver Honor.
e’s activism with youth is featured in the documentary At-Risk Summer which inspired e. to co-found the non-profit Never Counted Out. Much of e.’s time off the page is dedicated to speaking or facilitating workshops with youth. It’s part of their Your Story Is A Revolution campaign focused on inspiring young people to be heard through storytelling. Recently, e contributed to the anthology Living Beyond Borders: Stories About Growing Up Mexican In America which will be followed by Fat Angie: Homecoming, and a picture book, co-authored with Pat Zietlow Miller, illustrated by Joe Cepeda, Lupe Lopez Rock Star Rules. Though forever that small-town south Texan dreaming of breakfast tacos and sweet tea, e. currently lives in California with their partner, an eclectic music and metal lunchbox collection, and two cats who pretty much run the show. http://bigdreamswrite.com |
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FAT ANGIE: REBEL GIRL REVOLUTION...
Sometimes life is . . . like Angie’s. In this sequel to Fat Angie, sophomore year has just begun, and Angie is miserable. Her girlfriend has moved away; her good friend, Jake, is keeping his distance; and the resident bully has ramped up an increasingly vicious and targeted campaign to humiliate her. An over-the-top statue dedication is almost too much to bear, and it doesn't help that her mother has placed a symbolic empty urn on their mantel. At the ceremony, a soldier hands Angie a final letter from her sister, including a list of places she wanted the two of them to visit when she got home from the war. With her mother threatening to send Angie to a “treatment center” and her situation at school becoming violent, Angie enlists the help of her estranged childhood friend, Jamboree. Along with a few other outsiders, they pack into an RV and head across Ohio. And what happens next is all very beautifully, strangely, quite truly Angie.
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FAT ANGIE...
Angie is broken—by her can’t-be-bothered mother, by her high-school tormenters, and by being the only one who thinks her varsity-athlete-turned-war-hero sister is still alive. Having failed to kill herself—in front of a gym full of kids—Angie’s back at high school just trying to make it through each day. That is, until the arrival of KC Romance, a girl who knows too well that the package doesn’t always match what’s inside. With an offbeat sensibility and mean girls to rival a horror classic, this darkly comic anti-romantic romance will appeal to anyone who likes entertaining and meaningful fiction.
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Sometimes life is . . . like Angie’s. In this sequel to Fat Angie, sophomore year has just begun, and Angie is miserable. Her girlfriend has moved away; her good friend, Jake, is keeping his distance; and the resident bully has ramped up an increasingly vicious and targeted campaign to humiliate her. An over-the-top statue dedication is almost too much to bear, and it doesn't help that her mother has placed a symbolic empty urn on their mantel. At the ceremony, a soldier hands Angie a final letter from her sister, including a list of places she wanted the two of them to visit when she got home from the war. With her mother threatening to send Angie to a “treatment center” and her situation at school becoming violent, Angie enlists the help of her estranged childhood friend, Jamboree. Along with a few other outsiders, they pack into an RV and head across Ohio. And what happens next is all very beautifully, strangely, quite truly Angie.
ORDER HERE
FAT ANGIE...
Angie is broken—by her can’t-be-bothered mother, by her high-school tormenters, and by being the only one who thinks her varsity-athlete-turned-war-hero sister is still alive. Having failed to kill herself—in front of a gym full of kids—Angie’s back at high school just trying to make it through each day. That is, until the arrival of KC Romance, a girl who knows too well that the package doesn’t always match what’s inside. With an offbeat sensibility and mean girls to rival a horror classic, this darkly comic anti-romantic romance will appeal to anyone who likes entertaining and meaningful fiction.
ORDER HERE