About this item
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 in the school lunch line, Rex's is a compelling story of a more profound hunger -- that of a child for his parents' love and care. Compulsively readable, beautifully crafted, and authentically told with the voice and point of view of a 6th-grade kid, Free Lunch is a remarkable debut by a gifted storyteller.
About the Author
REX OGLE was born and raised (mostly) in Texas. He is the author of memoirs Free Lunch (which received the ALA/YALSA Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction) , Punching Bag, and the upcoming graphic novel Four Eyes. He also wrote the fantasy middle-grade Supernatural Society trilogy and has written dozens of comics for Marvel and DC, as well as his webcomic Blink. He's written under a lot of pen names too - most notably Trey King, Honest Lee, and REY TERCIERO, under which he penned Meg, Jo, Beth, & Amy, Swan Lake: Quest for the Kingdoms, Doña Quixote, and Northranger. He lives in Los Angeles where he writes full-time - when he's not outside hiking with his dog, playing MarioKart with friends, or reading.To find out more, visit www.rexogle.com or @thirdrex on instagram.
