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| Prizefighter En Mi Casa (Delacorte Press * 2006) Twelve Year Old Chula Sanchez forges an unlikely friendship with an illegal prizefighter from Mexico who has come to her South Texas home. The Delacorte Dell Yearling Award * 2004 The Parents' Choice Silver Honor * 2006 Flamingnet Top Choice Award * 2006 National Council for the Social Studies Notable Book * 2007 New York Public Library List for Teens * 2007 Feel Like Home (Delacorte Press * April 10, 2007) Michelle "Mickey" Owens must deal with older brother Danny who disappeared six years ago after a tragedy tore both them and their small Texas town apart. VOYA says, "Charlton-Trujillo's novel evokes the uneasy relationships between Anglos and Latinos in South Texas and well describes the sometimes suffocating familiarity that small-town residents have with each other. This tension, depicted as a key part of the setting is effectively mirrored in the familial tension that Danny's arrival brings. KIRKUS (April 2007) writes " ...realistic dialogue and unexpected metaphors help to enliven a narrative that builds suspense as Mickey gradually goes back to the crucial events that sent Danny into oblivion six years earlier. An extra bonus are the multiple references to The Outsiders, as the ragged copy that Danny and Mickey shared years earlier becomes a referee at the heart of their differences."Janis Flint-Ferguson, Assoc. Prof., English, Gordon College writes Feels Like Home, "...is an intense story about loss and pain. Readers will see in her what it takes to fight for truth in the midst of great emotional upheaveal." |