🧍 Characters
Who is Rex?
This is the main character of the story.
What is the free lunch program?
This program gives Rex free meals at school.
Whats the major problem in Rex´s Family
The Family has alot of money problems
This theme is shown through Rex’s financial struggles.
What is poverty?
This type of book tells a true story from the author’s life.
What is a memoir?
Who is his brother?
Rex takes care of this younger family member.
What is embarrassment (or shame)?
Rex feels this emotion when he has to get free lunch.
This type of housing problem happens to Rex’s family.
They get evicted from their old apartment and have to live in a lower class housing
Rex often feels this because of his situation.
What is shame?
The story mainly takes place during this school year.
What is sixth grade?
Who is his mom?
This person is Rex’s parent who struggles to provide for the family.
What does he try to hide?
Rex tries to hide this from others at school.
Rex sometimes experiences this harmful treatment at home.
He gets abused by his parents (mostly the mom)
By the end, Rex learns to accept this
What is help, poor
This is the title of the book.
What is Free Lunch?
Who is his mom’s boyfriend?
This person lives with Rex’s family and contributes to the difficult home environment.
What do the teachers do?
Some teachers treat Rex unfairly.
What is a caregiver
Rex often has to take care of his brother in his family.
This quality helps Rex keep going despite challenges.
What is resilience?
This is the main setting of the story (two main places).
What are school and home?
What do his classmates do?
They sometimes judge Rex for being poor.
Which activity is hard for him
Football is hard for Rex to join because of money problems.
This basic need is sometimes not met in Rex’s home.
There have been some evenings where he had no Food
The story shows the importance of understanding this about others.
What is empathy?
By the end, Rex gains this feeling about his future.
What is hope?