Charlton-Trujillo garnered the Delacorte Dell Yearling Award in 2004 for 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 Public Library Teenage List. Her third novel, Fat Angie, released through Candlewick in March 2013, won the American Library Association’s coveted Stonewall Award in 2014. 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 was launched a non-profit to bridge the gap between at-risk youth and artists called Never Counted Out.