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Fat Angie: Rebel Girl Revolution (Fat Angie series)
Author: E.E. Charlton-Trujillo
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Publisher: Candlewick

Description:

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, 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 planned for her sister, who died in Iraq, 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 the 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 the state on the road trip Angie's sister did not live to take. It might be just what Angie needs to find a way to let her sister go, and find herself in the process.

Praise for FAT ANGIE: REBEL GIRL REVOLUTION:

Fortunately and refreshingly, the text gives Angie no weight-loss arc...A welcomingly awkward, offbeat journey for a "gay-girl gay" girl with many heartaches. ―Kirkus Reviews

In this companion to the Stonewall Award–winning Fat Angie, Angie’s girlfriend has moved away, Angie is constantly bullied as she starts as a sophomore after repeating her freshman year, her mother still can’t stand her, and her former best friend, Jamboree, is back in town...it’s still good to see Angie, a very human combination of neuroses, fears, truths, and desires, break through some of her defenses and take risks, from singing to loving. ―Publishers Weekly

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Under Pressure

It was lunch. Lunch sucked. Angie added this to her List of Dislikes in the journal that her new woo-woo therapist had encouraged her to keep. Much to the resistance of Angie, who did not like seeing her thoughts written out. Nevertheless, she was making every effort to comply. She was a rule follower, after all. Well, mostly.

Angie picked a spot in the corner of the courtyard that she estimated would have the least amount of foot trafﬁc. The cafeteria crowd had been entirely too intimidating for her to go it alone. And it would be alone because Jake had not been there to meet her. She ﬁ red off another text to Jake, who had not texted her back all morning. She did not like this and added it to her List of Dislikes while ﬁnishing a MoonPie. Clipped to her hip was the abandoned Sony Walkman, with AM/FM and audio cassette capabilities that had been a favorite of her father’s. Like the pedometer, it was one of the few leftovers from his moving out, divorcing her couldn’t understand mother, and upgrading to a new, less defective family unit.

1 old dad + 1 younger wife + 1 son + 1 daughter = 4 happiness2

Angie still struggled with the fact that he had taken the family dog, Lester. Lester, who did not like his name, as he would never respond to it. A name that had been her couldn’t-understand mother’s idea, which was clearly misguided. Of the plethora of potential dog names, Lester was fairly lackluster. That much Angie was certain of. Angie adjusted the foam headphones. The music of Tori Amos’s “Cornﬂake Girl” crunched and pumped through her ears from one of the three mixtapes KC had made her before leaving. Angie liked the number three. Angie missed KC. Angie unwrapped an Almond Joy and began to eat it. She checked her phone for the fourth time in the last ten minutes. Jake had still not texted her.

He had promised they would eat together on the ﬁrst day of school. He had promised he would pick her up that morning. He had promised many things that had not come to fruition. Why had he become a promise-not-promise person? It did not ﬁt the predictable pattern of Jake. Even if their friendship had been birthed from a promise he made to her military sister, Jake had said Angie was a great friend — a best friend. As evidenced by their talks while playing basketball in her driveway or sharing the dinner special at Betty’s Muy Mexican Casa restaurant. They had stretched out in dual hammocks in his backyard, wishing on all the stars that did not fall. Maximizing their possibility of wish fulﬁllment.

After Angie’s sister’s funeral, Jake Fetch was the one who got her. Even though he himself came from a perfect home, with a perfect lawn, and a perfect family that had dinner together every night. And his dog, Ryan, liked his name. Somewhere in all of Jake’s seemingly perfect existence, Jake saw Angie. Not the Fat Angie almost everyone else seemed to see.

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Deemed a “force of nature” by Kirkus reviews, Mexican American author, filmmaker, playwright and poet e.E. Charlton-Trujillo grew up in small-town Mathis, Texas.

As an author, she is the recipient of the Delacorte Dell Yearling Award for her first novel, Prizefighter En Mi Casa. What followed was: the Parents’ Choice Silver Honor, a Flamingnet Top Choice Award,a National Council for the Social Studies Notable Book and made the NYC PublicLibrary Teenage List. Check out the Reviews on Amazon.com

Her second novel Feels Like Home released to critical praise and award nominations.

It was her third novel, Fat Angie that garnered the American Library Association’s Stonewall Award, was a Lambda Literary Finalist and a Choose to Read Ohio book. Fat Angie was also the foundation for a unique book tour to empower at-risk youth via writing and discussion and the catalyst for the feature documentary At-Risk Summer. From that experience, she co-founded a non-profit to bridge the gap between at-risk youth and artists called Never Counted Out.

Currently, she is completing the feature documentary, A Cultural of Silence for GLSEN Cincinnati, writing two novels and Fat Angie: Rebel Girl Revolution in early 2019.

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