{"product_id":"9781324053453","title":"Abuela, Don't Forget Me","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA Finalist for the 2023 YALSA Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award. Rex Ogle’s companion to \u003cem\u003eFree Lunch\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePunching Bag\u003c\/em\u003e weaves humor, heartbreak, and hope into life-affirming poems that honor his grandmother’s legacy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his award-winning memoir \u003cem\u003eFree Lunch\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 to the library where he could take out as many books as he wanted, and to offer safety when darkness closed in. Throughout a coming of age marked by violence and dysfunction, Abuela’s red-brick house in Abilene, Texas, offered Rex the possibility of home, and Abuela herself the possibility for a better life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbuela, Don’t Forget Me\u003c\/em\u003e is a lyrical portrait of the transformative and towering woman who believed in Rex even when he didn’t yet know how to believe in himself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton Young Readers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47917927563504,"sku":"9781324053453","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781324053453_p0.jpg?v=1763707519","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781324053453","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}