TY - BOOK AU - Ogle,Rex TI - Free lunch SN - 9781324016946 U1 - 362.7092B PY - 2019/// CY - New York, NY PB - Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company KW - Ogle, Rex KW - Poor children KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Juvenile literature KW - Hunger KW - School children KW - Food KW - Middle school students N1 - Lexile : HL540L N2 - This is the author's story of starting middle school on the free lunch program. During the 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, this is a story of a more profound hunger - that of a child for his parents' love and care--adapted from description provided by publisher ER -