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Punching bag

Ogle, Rex (author.).

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Summary: "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, fierce mother; and charts the trajectory of his stepdad's anger. Hovering over Rex's story is the talismanic presence of his unborn baby sister. Through it all, Rex threads moments of grace and humor that act as beacons of light in the darkness. Compulsively readable, beautifully crafted, and authentically told, Punching Bag is a remarkable memoir about one teenager's cycle of violence, blame, and attempts to forgive his parents-and himself"--

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Athens Regional Library System:
      Bogart Library 		YA B OGLE
Send SMS Text		 31001006016738 YA Available
Athens Regional Library System:
      Danielsville/Madison County Library 		YA B OGLE
Send SMS Text		 31001006029285 YA Available
Athens Regional Library System:
      Lavonia Carnegie Library 		YA B OGLE
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Athens Regional Library System:
      Lexington/Oglethorpe County Library 		YA B OGLE
Send SMS Text		 31001006029293 YA Available
Athens Regional Library System:
      Winterville Library 		YA B OGLE
Send SMS Text		 31001005198370 YA Available
Coastal Plain Regional Library System:
      Cook County Library 		YA362.7 OGLE, REX
Send SMS Text		 31013002100374 YA Non Fiction Available
Dougherty County Public Library:
      Northwest Branch 		YB OGLE OGLE, REX
Send SMS Text		 31018904868960 NONFIC Available
Flint River Regional Library System:
      Griffin-Spalding County Library 		Y 362.775 OGLE
Send SMS Text		 31022010626239 YA Available
Flint River Regional Library System:
      J. Joel Edwards Public Library 		Y 362.775 OGLE
Send SMS Text		 31022010627872 YA Available
Lake Blackshear Regional Library System:
      Lake Blackshear Regional Library 		J 362.7 Ogl R.
Send SMS Text		 31031000230076 Juvenile NonFiction Available
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