Rex Ogle
1) Free lunch
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Language
English
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"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...
2) Four eyes
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Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"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"--
3) Pizza face
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Late bloomer Rex navigates a low-income family, bullies, sports, and middle school, all while learning to have confidence with a body that refuses to stop changing.
4) 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...
5) Cuatro ojos
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Series
Publisher
Graphix un sello editorial de Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"El sexto grado no es tan genial como Rex pensó que sería. Es el único chico que no ha dado el estirón, y los abusones se lo recordarán a cada instante. Ya no puede confiar en su mejor amigo, y no puede dejar de pensar en una linda chica de su clase, que es posible esté interesada en él. Con tantas cosas sucediendo, a Rex todo le resulta borroso, ¡hasta su visión! Entonces descubre que necesita usar gafas, y su familia solo puede comprarle...
6) Punching bag
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an Imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Language
English
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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,...
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English
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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
Publisher
Norton Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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...
Author
Series
Supernatural society volume 3
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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....
Author
Series
Supernatural society volume 2
Language
English
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"Things are starting to look up for Will Hunter in East Emerson. He's pretty much used to seeing monsters all over the place. He's become best friends with neighbors Ivy and Linus (the only peo[ple who can see what he sees). Together, they saved the town from a pet-napping vampire. 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...
Author
Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
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 he can't stop thinking about. With so much going on, everything is a blurincluding Rex's vision! So when he discovers that he needs glasses, and his family can only afford the ugliest pair in the store, any hope Rex had of...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
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 he can't stop thinking about. With so much going on, everything is a blur, including Rex's vision! So when he discovers that he needs glasses, and his family can only afford the ugliest pair in the store, any hope Rex had...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"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. She soon comes to realize that something evil made her its target, and it will not rest until it has her in its unholy grip. But why did this sinister presence set its sights on...
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Flashpoint has changed the DC Universe, and nothing is as it was before. Now, Kal-El of Krypton never became Superman. He has spent his entire life locked up by the government as "Subject 1." But if he's going to become the hero he was always meant to be, first he has to save the world... But Kal is not alone in trying to save this flawed world. Traci 13 uses her magic to travel the war-torn world and prevent further destruction. An unusual hero...
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Publisher
Marvel Worldwide. Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Weapon X gave Wolverine his famous Adamantium skeleton and tortured countless other mutants. Thanks to the X-Men, the program was shut down-- but with Logan's death, someone's put the deadly experiments back in action!"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It's the all-new X-Men versus the Inhumans! Since the discovery that the Terrigen Mist -- the key to unlocking an Inhuman's hidden potential and powers -- is lethal to mutants, the X-Men and Inhumans have been locked in a cold war. But as the Terrigen seeps into the earth and reaches an irreversible tipping point, the X-Men are spurred into action to ensure the future of their species! For Jean Grey, that means taking out the Inhumans' deadliest weapon:...
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The Man of Steel Stars in DC's New Superman: Red & Blue anthology mini-series! In the spirit of DC's iconic Eisner Award-winning Batman: Black & White anthology series, DC proudly announces Superman: Red & Blue, a new anthology mini-series presenting fresh new takes on the Man of Steel. Around the world, everyone knows that when they see a red and blue streak in the sky, it's not a bird...it's not a plane...it's Superman! Academy Award-winning writer...