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Rex Ogle

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.

Rex Ogle

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.

Awards

Winner — ALA YALSA Award, 2020

Shortlisted — ALA YALSA Award, 2023

Books by Rex Ogle

  • Abuela, Don't Forget Me

    Rex Ogle

    Paperback, 2024

    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
  • When We Ride: A Novel

    Rex Ogle

    Hardback, 2025

    Rex Ogle explores bonds of loyalty and friendship and how they’re tested by drugs and violence in this propulsive novel-in-verse
  • When We Ride: A Novel

    Rex Ogle

    E Book

    Rex Ogle explores bonds of loyalty and friendship and how they’re tested by drugs and violence in this propulsive novel-in-verse
  • Road Home

    Rex Ogle

    Paperback

    An Amazon Best Book of the Year