Rex Ogle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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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...
2) Free lunch
Author
Series
Memoir (Rex Ogle) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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
Series
Supernatural Society volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
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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 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Will Hunter just wants a quiet day in East Emerson. But instead: A bully won't leave him alone at school His mom is struggling to make ends meet Together with friends Ivy and Linus, he's had to save the town from a pet-napping vampire and a werewolf army. When someone starts raising the dead all over town, it's up to Will, Ivy, and Linus to unlock the centuries of secrets hiding underground and prevent a terrifying monster from being unleashed. And...
Author
Series
Supernatural Society volume 2
Language
English
Formats
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...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 Will is one of them"--
Author
Series
Four eyes (Rex Ogle) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"When Rex finds out he needs glasses, he's beyond miserable. Dealing with the bullies at school, his family being broke, and an embarrassing lack of friends, he has way too much on his plate already"--
7) Punching bag
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
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,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A humorous and heartwarming middle-grade graphic memoir about fitting in, facing bullies, and finding the right pair of glasses.
Sixth grade isn't as great as Rex thought it would be. He's the only kid who hasn't had a growth spurt, and the bullies won't let him forget it. His closest friend is unreliable, at best. And there's a cute girl in his class, who may or may not like him back. With so much going on, everything is a blur —
...9) Road home
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an Imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"This final, essential chapter in Rex Ogle’s memoir trilogy recounts being forced from his home and living on the streets after his father discovered he was gay. When Rex was outed the summer after he graduated high school, his father gave him a choice: he could stay at home, find a girlfriend, and attend church twice a week, or he could be gay—and leave. Rex left, driving toward the only other gay man he knew and a toxic relationship that would...
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Series
Language
English
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Not a dream, not an imaginary story, not an elseworld. This is Flash Fact: When Barry Allen wakes at his desk, he discovers the world has changed. Family is alive, loved ones are strangers, and close friends are different, gone or worse. It's a world on the brink of a cataclysmic war--but where are Earth's Greatest Heroes to stop it? World Of Flashpoint: When the Amazons and Atlanteans broke out into war, everything changed in a flash--especially...
Author
Series
DC Horror Presents volume 1
Language
English
Description
The terrifying debut of the tie-in to The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It begins here, with a story that's bursting at the seams with clues about the Conjuring's latest villainess...Meet Jessica. Jessica just returned to her freshman year of college after winter break, bringing with her the anxieties of last semester's poor grades, the awkwardness of facing a boy she wishes she'd never slept with, and an undeniably unnerving feeling of being watched....