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Free Lunch

By Rex Ogle
Edition

Hardcover edition

Publisher W. W. Norton & Company Imprint Norton Young Readers ISBN

9781324003601

Awards and Honors 2020 Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award Winner
Kirkus Best Books - 2019
CPL Best Books - 2019

Free Lunch

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Crime: General,Discrimination: Racial Insensitivity/Racism,Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Drug Use/Abuse,Language: Homophobic Slur,Language: Mild Language,Violence: Domestic/Physical Abuse

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.



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