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Rex Ogle recounts his first semester in sixth grade in which he and his younger brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies and he 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. Mature themes. Memoir. Biography. Homelessness. Physical abuse. Includes back matter. IL 6-9. AR 3.7. RC 4.2. Lexile 540. Iowa Teen Award 2021-2022. | |