Abuela, Don't Forget Me
New York, NY : Norton Young Readers, [2022]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 198 pages ; 22 cm
"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 to the library where he could take out as many books as he wanted, and to offer safety when darkness closed in. Throughout a coming of age marked by violence and dysfunction, Abuela's red-brick house in Abilene, Texas, offered Rex the possibility of home, and Abuela herself the possibility for a better life. Abuela, Don't Forget Me is a lyrical portrait of the transformative and towering woman who believed in Rex even when he didn't yet know how to believe in himself"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Abuela's house -- To and from -- Gifts and fists -- An education -- Senior year -- There and back again -- Now.
Subjects:
Ogle, Rex -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature.
Poor teenagers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Grandparent and child -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Grandmothers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Autobiographical poetry, American.
Ogle, Rex -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature.
Poor teenagers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Grandparent and child -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Grandmothers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Autobiographical poetry, American.
Target Audience: Ages 13-18.
ISBN:
9781324019954
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
T BIOGRAPHY Ogle, Rex | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Teen Nonfiction | In |
T BIOGRAPHY Ogle, Rex | Blythewood | Teen Biography | Out (Due: ) |
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South Carolina Young Adult Book Award Nominee.