Ramon De Ocampo
1) Free lunch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
I say, "Te amo siempre."
And she says, "I love you more."
And I say, "Impossible." Abuela, Don't Forget Me is Rex Ogle's portrait of his grandmother, the one adult he could count on when he was a child—and who is now forgetting him as dementia takes hold of her. In his award-winning Free Lunch and Punching Bag, Rex charted a coming of age marked by poverty and domestic violence. Here, he celebrates the woman who gave him unconditional love through...
3) Punching Bag
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
This is a true story.
This is my story.
It happened to me.
I survived. Punching Bag is the compelling story of a young adulthood punctuated by domestic abuse. Rex Ogle, who brilliantly mapped his experience of poverty and hunger in Free Lunch, here charts his struggle to survive a brutal and unpredictable cycle of violence between and at the hands of his mother and stepfather, and to understand the history and situation of his damaged family. Hovering...