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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-101324016949
ISBN-139781324016946
eBay Product ID (ePID)2321427099
Product Key Features
Book TitleFree Lunch
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2021
TopicFamily / General (See Also Headings under Social Topics), Social Topics / Homelessness & Poverty, Biography & Autobiography / General
GenreJuvenile Nonfiction
AuthorRex Ogle
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight6.6 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience
ReviewsOutstanding, gracious writing and a clear eye for the penetrating truth. A mighty portrait of poverty amid cruelty and optimism.--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) With candor and vivid detail, Ogle's debut captures the experience of chronic poverty in the United States...Ogle's emotional honesty pays off in the form of complex characterization and a bold, compassionate thesis.--Publishers Weekly (starred review) Heart-wrenching, timely, and beautifully written, this is a powerful and urgent work.--School Library Journal (starred review) Ogle's engrossing narrative is rich in lived experience.--Booklist
Dewey Edition23
Grade FromSixth Grade
Grade ToNinth Grade
Dewey Decimal362.7092
SynopsisInstead of giving him lunch money, Rex's mom has signed him up for free meals. As a poor kid in a wealthy school district, better-off kids crowd impatiently behind him as he tries to explain to the cashier that he's on the free meal program. The lunch lady is hard of hearing, so Rex has to shout. Free Lunch is the story of Rex's efforts to navigate his first semester of sixth grade--who to sit with, not being able to join the football team, Halloween in a handmade costume, classmates and a teacher who take one look at him and decide he's trouble--all while wearing secondhand clothes and being hungry. His mom and her boyfriend are out of work, and life at home is punctuated by outbursts of violence. Halfway through the semester, his family is evicted and ends up in government-subsidized housing in view of the school. Rex lingers at the end of last period every day until the buses have left, so no one will see where he lives. Unsparing and realistic, Free Lunch is a story of hardship threaded with hope and moments of grace. Rex's voice is compelling and authentic, and Free Lunch is a true, timely, and essential work that illuminates the lived experience of poverty in America.