Rex Ogle
1) Punching bag
Author
Series
Memoir (Rex Ogle) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"The companion to Rex Ogle's award-winning Free Lunch is a searing account of adolescence in a household torn by domestic violence. Punching Bag is the compelling true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated by outbreaks of domestic abuse. Rex Ogle, who brilliantly mapped his experience of hunger in Free Lunch, here describes his struggle to survive; reflects on his complex, often paradoxical relationship with his passionate,...
2) Free lunch
Author
Series
Memoir (Rex Ogle) volume 1
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 540L
Language
English
Description
"A distinctive new voice: Rex Ogle's story of starting middle school on the free lunch program is timely, heartbreaking, and true. Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle's first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school's free lunch program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day...
3) Four eyes
Author
Series
Four eyes (Rex Ogle) volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
GN 280L
Language
English
Description
"When Rex finds out he needs glasses, he's beyond miserable. Dealing with the bullies at school, his family being broke, and an embarrassing lack of friends, he has way too much on his plate already"--
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Rex Ogle's companion to Free Lunch and Punching Bag weaves humor, heartbreak, and hope into life-affirming poems that honor his grandmother's legacy. In his award-winning memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle's abuela features as a source of love and support. In this companion-in-verse, Rex captures and celebrates the powerful presence a woman he could always count on-to give him warm hugs and ear kisses, to teach him precious words in Spanish, to bring him...
5) Road home
Author
Series
Memoir (Rex Ogle) volume 3
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an Imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"This final, essential chapter in Rex Ogle's memoir trilogy recounts being forced from his home and living on the streets after his father discovered he was gay. When Rex was outed the summer after he graduated high school, his father gave him a choice: he could stay at home, find a girlfriend, and attend church twice a week, or he could be gay--and leave. Rex left, driving toward the only other gay man he knew and a toxic relationship that would...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When all the town pets (including Fitz) go missing, Will suspects there's something sinister going on. So he joins forces with outcast Ivy and super-smart Linus to uncover the ancient secrets of East Emerson. Besides, nothing bad could happen when threesixth graders team up against monsters, magic, myths, and mad science...right?"--
7) Pizza face
Author
Series
Four eyes (Rex Ogle) volume 2
Publisher
Graphix an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Late bloomer Rex navigates a low-income family, bullies, sports, and middle school, all while learning to have confidence with a body that refuses to stop changing.