Punching Bag by Rex Ogle

Punching Bag

Rex Ogle

224 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction memoir young adult challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

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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; re...

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Moods

emotional 86%
sad 86%
tense 80%
challenging 73%
dark 73%
reflective 40%
inspiring 26%
hopeful 13%
adventurous 6%

Pace

medium 53%
fast 46%

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4.49

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