Illuminating Hope and Grace in the Face of Hardship with Rex Ogle (5th-8th Grade)
Wed, Jul 23
|Virtual/On-Demand
Meet the Author is a virtual program and is available on-demand following the event. It is sponsored by Friends of Fauquier Library and made possible through the Library Speaker's Consortium.
Time & Location
Jul 23, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Virtual/On-Demand
About the event
You’re invited to join us online with award-winning author Rex Ogle as he talks to viewers about his struggles to navigate sixth grade as written about in his book Free Lunch. Unsparing and realistic, Free Lunch is a story of hardship threaded with hope and moments of grace. Rex’s voice is compelling and authentic, and Free Lunch is a true, timely, and essential work that illuminates the lived experience of poverty in America. 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.
Registration is required; all programs will also be available for on-demand viewing following the event. Learn more at https://bit.ly/fplauthor.