Rex Ogle
Author
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...
Author
Series
Supernatural Society volume 1
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Will Hunter thought his life couldn't get any worse - his parents just got divorced ; his best (and only) friend now is his dog, Fitz ; and his Mom moved them from New York City to a middle-of-nowhere town called East Emerson. But Will was wrong - things are about to get way worse. Because East Emerson is filled with a whole lot of monsters that only he can see. To everyone else they look like normal people. When all the town pets (including Fritz),...
Author
Series
Supernatural Society volume 2
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Things are starting to look up for Will Hunter in East Emerson. He's pretty much used to seeing monsters all over the place. He's become best friends with neighbors Ivy and Linus (the only peo[ple who can see what he sees). Together, they saved the town from a pet-napping vampire. But Will's problems are far from over. Because there's a werewolf on the loose in East Emerson, turning people into dangerous, mind-controlled animals left and right. And...
4) Punching bag
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an Imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
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,...