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Punching Bag

By Rex Ogle
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By Rex Ogle
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A New York Public Library Best Book of 2021

The companion to Rex Ogle's award-winning Free Lunch is a searing account of adolescence in a household torn by domestic violence.

Punching Bag is the compelling true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated by outbreaks of domestic abuse. Rex Ogle, who brilliantly mapped his experience of hunger in Free Lunch, here describes his struggle to survive; reflects on his complex, often paradoxical relationship with his passionate, ...

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Social Sciences - TeensSocial Sciences - General & Miscellaneous - TeensPhysical & Emotional Abuse - TeensAbused teenagers->Teen nonfiction