Free Lunch is the story of Rex Oglea�TMs 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 schoola�TMs 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, Rexa�TMs is a compelling story of a more profound hunger a�� that of a child for his parentsa�TM love and care.
Age Range: 9-12 | Grade Level: 6-9 | Lexile Measure: 540