e. E. Charlton-Trujillo is an award-winning filmmaker and author of two novels, Prizefighter en Mi Casa, winner of a Delacorte Yearling Award, and Feels Like Home. About her new book, her first for Candlewick, she says, The first chapter of Fat Angie began on a restaurant napkin while listening to Lenny Kravitz s Are You Gonna Go My Way on my iPod. Something in the pulse of the music ignited a distinct voice for this kid and her unbelievably odd and amazing world. Needless to say, I m glad I kept that napkin. e.E. Charlton-Trujillo lives in Cincinnati.
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More trouble at school and at home — and the discovery of a missive from her late soldier sister — send Angie and a long-ago friend on an RV road trip across Ohio. Sophomore year has just begun, and Angie is miserable. Her girlfriend, KC, h... SEE MORE