num_pages: 208
description: In his memoir Free Lunch Rex Ogles abuela features as a source of love and support. In this companion memoir-in-verse Rex captures and celebrates the powerful presence a woman he could always count onto 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 Abuelas red-brick house in Abilene Texas offered Rex the possibility of home and Abuela herself the possibility for a better life.
language: English
title: Abuela, Don't Forget Me
publisher: Norton Young Readers