Ramón de Ocampo
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Rex Ogle's companion to Free Lunch and Punching Bag weaves humor, heartbreak, and hope into life-affirming poems that honor his grandmother's legacy. 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...
Author
Publisher
Broadstreet Publishing
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Adulting (verb): To do grown-up things and have responsibilities such as a working full time, paying rent, or owning a car. This book will give you what you need to succeed and make a real impact, inspiring you to change the world and be the person you were meant to be.--Publisher's description.
3) Free lunch
Author
Series
Memoir volume 1
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Description
"A distinctive new voice: Rex Ogle's story of starting middle school on the free lunch program is timely, heartbreaking, and true. Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle's 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 school's free lunch program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A thrilling account of the most daring American POW rescue mission of World War II. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, America entered World War II, and a new theater of battle opened up in the Pacific. But US troops, along with thousands of Filipino soldiers who fought alongside them, were overtaken in the Philippines by a fiercely determined Japanese navy, and many Americans and Filipino fighters were killed or captured.These American and Filipino...
5) Punching bag
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"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,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Launching a propulsive middle grade nonfiction series, a young man shares how he combated Puerto Rico's public health emergency after Hurricane Maria. Suffering heavy damage in the wake of Hurricane Maria in 2017, Puerto Rican communities lacked access to clean water and electricity. Salvador Gómez-Colón couldn't ignore the basic needs of his homeland, and knew that nongovernmental organizations and larger foreign philanthropies could only do so...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Foreword by Neil Blumenthal, co-founder of Warby Parker
"A beautiful, timely book that will guide you as you find your way to make a difference in the world."
—Walter Isaacson
You don't have to be a billionaire philanthropist, give up your day job, or wait for retirement to make a difference in the world. You can start now.
We all want to make the world a better place, but with...
"A beautiful, timely book that will guide you as you find your way to make a difference in the world."
—Walter Isaacson
You don't have to be a billionaire philanthropist, give up your day job, or wait for retirement to make a difference in the world. You can start now.
We all want to make the world a better place, but with...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The explosive memoir of legendary DEA agents and the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos. Readers will go deep inside the inner workings of the Search Bloc, the joint Colombian-US task force that resulted in an intensive 18-month operation that tracked Escobar.
"For the first time, legendary DEA operatives Steve Murphy and Javier F. Peña tell the true story of how they helped put an end to one of the world's most infamous narcoterrorists. Colombian...