Rex Ogle explores bonds of loyalty and friendship and how they’re tested by drugs and violence in this propulsive novel-in-verse.Diego Benevides works hard. His single mother encourages him to stay focused on school, on getting into college, on getting out of their crumbling neighborhood. That’s why she gave him her car.Diego’s best friend, Lawson, needs a ride?because Lawson is dealing. As long as Diego’s not carrying, not selling, it’s cool. It’s just weed.But when Lawson starts carrying powder and pills and worse, their friendship is tested and their lives are threatened. As the lines between dealer and driver blur, everything Diego has worked for is jeopardized, and he faces a deadly reckoning with the choices he and his best friend have made.Award-winning memoirist and poet Rex Ogle’s searing first novel-in-verse is an unforgettable story of the power and price of loyalty.
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 gayand leave. Rex left, driving toward the
only other gay man he knew and a toxic relationship that would ultimately leave him homeless and desperate
on the streets of New Orleans.
Here, Rex tells the story of his coming out and his father’s rejection of his identity, navigating abuse and survival
on the streets. Road Home is a devastating and incandescent reflection on Rex’s hungerfor food, for love, and
for a place to call homecompleting the trilogy of memoirs that began with the award-winning Free Lunch.
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 it all. From a first memory of hiding in a
laundry hamper and squealing with delight when she found him; through collect calls, visits, trips to the library, and a trip to Mexico, where she was raised; school reports, driving lessons, and a first car; to high school and graduation, Abuela,
Don’t Forget Me is a lyrical and life-affirming portrait of the promise of love and home, and of the devoted grandmother who provided it.
"Monsters have never been so much fun." -Stuart Gibbs, New York Times bestselling author of the Spy School series
"Frightening and fun!" -Neil Patrick Harris, New York Times bestselling author of The Magic Misfits
Readers will be scared silly in this spooky and hilarious middle grade series starter about a town chock-full of monsters and the kids who must unravel centuries of secrets to save it.
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 the 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, and he's the only person who can see them.
When all the town pets (including Fitz) go missing, Will suspects there's something sinister going on. So he joins forces with outcast Ivy and super-smart Linus to uncover the ancient secrets of East Emerson. Besides, nothing bad could happen when three sixth graders team up against monsters, magic, myths, and mad science . . . right?
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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 over Rex's story is the talismanic presence of his unborn baby sister, herself a victim of these circumstances. Compulsively readable, beautifully crafted, and authentically told, Punching Bag is a heartbreaking memoir of trauma with a powerful and abiding message-a story of one teenager's experience of violence, blame, and forgiveness, and a universal story of hope and survival.
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