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Free lunch / Rex Ogle.

Summary:

"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 in the school lunch line, Rex's is a compelling story of a more profound hunger -- that of a child for his parents' love and care. Compulsively readable, beautifully crafted, and authentically told with the voice and point of view of a 6th-grade kid, Free Lunch is a remarkable debut by a gifted storyteller"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781324003601
ISBN: 132400360X
ISBN: 9781324016946
ISBN: 1324016949
Physical Description: 206 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher: New York, NY : Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:	9-12 years HL540L Lexile Decoding demand: 86 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 77 gh) Structure demand: 88 (very high) Lexile Young adult Decoding demand: 86 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 77 (high) Structure demand: 88 (very high) Lexile
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader AR MG 3.7 7 505596.
Awards Note:	2021-2022 Truman Readers Award nominee