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Free Lunch (Rex Ogle)

Also known as Free Lunch

A book for ages 11 to 14 about Rex Ogle (sixth-grade memoir)

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Key facts

Ages
11 to 14; Publishers Weekly: ages 11-141
Audiobook read by
Ramón de Ocampo2
Audiobook length
5 h 52 min2
Published
2019, Norton Young Readers1
Award
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction 2020 (winner)3
Content to know about
Poverty and free-lunch stigma; verbal and physical abuse by his mother and stepfather; neglect (he and a toddler left alone for days). Intense.1

Connections

Sources

  1. Free Lunch: age range and content (publishersweekly.com) (opens publishersweekly.com)
  2. Free Lunch: audiobook (kirkusreviews.com) (opens kirkusreviews.com)
  3. Free Lunch: award (en.wikipedia.org) (opens en.wikipedia.org)

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