VIRTUAL: Illuminating Hope and Grace in the Face of Hardship with Rex Ogle (5th-8th Grade)

You’re invited to join us online with award-winning author Rex Ogle as he talks to viewers about his struggles to navigate sixth grade as written about in his book Free Lunch. 

Free Lunch is the story of Rex’s efforts to navigate his first semester of sixth grade—who to sit with, not being able to join the football team, Halloween in a handmade costume, classmates and a teacher who take one look at him and decide he’s trouble—all while wearing secondhand clothes and being hungry. His mom and her boyfriend are out of work, and life at home is punctuated by outbursts of violence. 

Unsparing and realistic, Free Lunch is a story of hardship threaded with hope and moments of grace.  Register now to join the conversation!

About the Author: Rex Ogle is the author of Free Lunch, winner of the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award; Punching Bag, a New York Public Library Best Book; Abuela Don’t Forget Me, finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award; and Road Home, which received a Printz Honor and a Stonewall Book Award Honor. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Author of Free Lunch, winner of the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award.

Register and ask questions of the author here:  https://libraryc.org/midlib/79090

The recording will be available after the event on our Virtual Author Talk page: https://libraryc.org/midlib