About
e.E. Charlton-Trujillo is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and youth literacy activist described as a “force of nature” by Kirkus Reviews. Trujillo is a 2024 Michael L. Printz Award winner for their surrealist fiction in The Collectors: Stories. Their Fat Angie series was an ALA Stonewall Award winner and a Lambda Literary Finalist among other accolades. Their Lupe Lopez picture book series garnered a Bank Street Best Books of The Year and International Latino Award among others. Trujillo's short fiction also appeared in the Read Across America, critically celebrated Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America. They have served as Visiting Faculty at Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and the University of Texas-El Paso's NEH Borderlands Narratives About Identity and Binationalism. They have also served as a judge for the prestigious Edgar Awards. A former Madrina for the Las Musas collective, Trujillo is also co-founder of the youth literacy nonprofit Never Counted Out.
Featured Work
Lupe Lopez: Reading Rock Star
Famous at Hector P. Garcia Elementary for being the first kid in kindergarten to ever start a band, Lupe Lopez enters first grade seeking a new sort of fame. She’s ready to rock and roll straight into the role of Reading Rock Star! But despite her best efforts, the words she thought she knew—now grouped in sentences—only glare back at her. Stuck in Group A with the kids who can’t read, she becomes the object of a rival’s mockery. Will her beloved band, and her confidence, survive the sting of defeat? Leave it to Lupe to prove that the beat she feels when she taps her pencil isn’t so very different from words and sentences—and that a real rock star is someone who doesn’t give up.
Other Works
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A Girl Can Build Anything
2023
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The Collectors: Stories
2023
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Lupe Lopez: Rock Star Rules
2022
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Fat Angie: Homecoming
2021
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Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican In America
2021
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Fat Angie: Rebel Girl Revolution
2019
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Fat Angie
2013
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Feels Like Home
2007
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Prizefighter en Mi Casa
2006
Awards and Recognition
- Michael L. Printz Award
- Stonewall Book Award
- International Latino Book Award
- Lambda Literary Finalist
- Forward Indies Bronze Award
- Parents Choice Award
- Choose to Read Ohio
- Read Across America Selection
- Bankstreet Best Book of the Year
- Westchester Book Award
- Delacorte Dell Yearling Award
