Abuela, Don't Forget Me

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.

About the author

Rex Ogle is the author of Free Lunch, winner of the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award; Punching Bag, a New York Public Library Best Book; Abuela Don't Forget Me, finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award; and Road Home, which received a Printz Honor and a Stonewall Book Award Honor. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Summary

Rex Ogle’s companion to Free Lunch and Punching Bag weaves humour, heartbreak and hope into life-affirming poems that honour his grandmother’s legacy

Product details

• Authors: Rex Ogle
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.03.2024
• EAN: 9781324053453
• ISBN: 978-1-324-05345-3
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 211 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 166 g
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Mankind; YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Poetry, People & places (Children's / Teenage), Poetry (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage: Poetry, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Family / Multigenerational, Children’s / Teenage: Social issues / topics, poverty;family;poetry;abuse;memoir;domestic violence, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Hispanic & Latino