Pub Date: September 6, 2022
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2022027158
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 12 to 18
Physical Info: 0.78" H x 8.59" L x 5.78" W ( 0.79 lbs) 208 pages
BISAC Categories:
Young Adult Nonfiction | Poetry | Family | Multigenerational | Biography and Autobiography | Cultural and Regional | Social Topics | Poverty and Homelessness
Description:
A Finalist for the 2023 YALSA Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award.
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.
Brief description: Rex Ogle is the award-winning author of Free Lunch, Punching Bag, Abuela, Don't Forget Me, Road Home, and, most recently, When We Ride. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Review Quotes: Ogle pays clear-eyed tribute to his maternal abuela while covering heavy topics such as child abuse, financial precarity, and racism in this searing verse memoir-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"