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    Rex Ogle

    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.

    Rex Ogle

    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.

    Awards

    Winner — ALA YALSA Award, 2020

    Shortlisted — ALA YALSA Award, 2023

    Books by Rex Ogle

    • Free Lunch

      Rex Ogle

      Hardback, 2019

      Rex Ogle’s story of startingYear 7 on the free lunch programme is timely, heart-breaking and true.

    • Punching Bag

      Rex Ogle

      Hardback, 2021

      The companion to Rex Ogle’s award-winning Free Lunch is a searing account of adolescence in a household torn by domestic violence.

    • Free Lunch

      Rex Ogle

      Paperback, 2021

      Rex Ogle’s story of starting Year 7 on the free lunch programme is timely, heart-breaking and true.

    • Free Lunch

      Rex Ogle

      E Book, 2019

      Rex Ogle’s story of starting Year 7 on the free lunch programme is timely, heart-breaking and true.

    • Punching Bag

      Rex Ogle

      E Book, 2021

      The companion to Rex Ogle’s award-winning Free Lunch (ISBN 978 1 324 01694 6) is a searing account of adolescence in a household torn by domestic violence

    • Abuela, Don't Forget Me

      Rex Ogle

      Hardback, 2022

      Rex Ogle’s companion to Free Lunch and Punching Bag weaves humour, heartbreak and hope into life-affirming poems that honor his grandmother’s legacy

    • Abuela, Don't Forget Me

      Rex Ogle

      E Book, 2022

      Rex Ogle’s companion to Free Lunch and Punching Bag weaves humour, heartbreak and hope into life-affirming poems that honor his grandmother’s legacy

    • Punching Bag

      Rex Ogle

      Paperback, 2023

      The companion to Rex Ogle’s award-winning Free Lunch (ISBN 978 1 324 01694 6) is a searing account of adolescence in a household torn by domestic violence

    • When We Ride: A Novel

      Rex Ogle

      Hardback, 2025

      Rex Ogle explores bonds of loyalty and friendship and how they’re tested by drugs and violence in this propulsive novel-in-verse

    • When We Ride: A Novel

      Rex Ogle

      E Book

      Rex Ogle explores bonds of loyalty and friendship and how they’re tested by drugs and violence in this propulsive novel-in-verse

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