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Road home / Rex Ogle.

Ogle, Rex, (author.).

Summary:

"This final, essential chapter in Rex Ogle's memoir trilogy recounts being forced from his home and living on the streets after his father discovered he was gay. When Rex was outed the summer after he graduated high school, his father gave him a choice: he could stay at home, find a girlfriend, and attend church twice a week, or he could be gay--and leave. Rex left, driving toward the only other gay man he knew and a toxic relationship that would ultimately leave him homeless and desperate on the streets of New Orleans. Here, Rex tells the story of his coming out and his father's rejection of his identity, navigating abuse and survival on the streets. Road Home is a devastating and incandescent reflection on Rex's hunger--for food, for love, and for a place to call home--completing the trilogy of memoirs that began with the award-winning Free Lunch"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781324019923
  • ISBN: 1324019921
  • Physical Description: 264 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company, [2024]

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
Ages 13-18 Norton Young Readers.
Grades 9 and up.
Awards Note:
Michael L. Printz Honor for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, 2025
Stonewall Book Honor, 2025
Subject: Ogle, Rex > Juvenile literature.
Ogle, Rex > Childhood and youth > Juvenile literature.
Ogle, Rex.
Poor teenagers > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Low-income high school students > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Coming out (Sexual orientation) > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Gay teenagers > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Homeless teenagers > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Coming out (Sexual orientation) > Juvenile literature.
Homophobia > Juvenile literature.
Parental rejection > Juvenile literature.
Man-man relationships > Juvenile literature.
Young adult literature.
Coming out (Sexual orientation)
Coming of age.
Homeless persons.
Poor.
Gay people.
Street life.
Adolescents pauvres > États-Unis > Biographies.
Élèves du secondaire à faible revenu > États-Unis > Biographies.
Littérature pour jeunes adultes.
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Social Topics / Physical & Emotional Abuse (see also Social Topics / Sexual Abuse)
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Social Topics / Homelessness & Poverty.
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Low-income high school students.
Poor teenagers.
Coming out.
LGBTQ+ youth.
Gay youth.
Poor > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Poor > Biography.
United States.
Genre: Young adult literature.
Biographies.
Autobiography.
autobiographies (literary genre)
Biographies.
Juvenile works.
LGBTQ+ biographies.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Homer Library. (Show)
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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Homer Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Homer Public Library YAB OGLE (Text) 000177644 Teen Corner -- New Available -


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