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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. 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. 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