“Fruitcake” by Rex Ogle is a YA trilogy finale

Rex Ogle is an award-winning writer and contributor to everything from Young Adult (YA) fiction to non-fiction to comics and graphic novels. His latest release is Fruitcake: A Graphic Novel.

It is the culmination of a light chronicling of Ogle’s middle school years. Even if you didn’t grow up as a burgeoning queer in a town in the heart of Texas, this semi-autobiographical telling of coming of age in sixth grade (Four Eyes), seventh grade (Pizza Face) and now eighth grade has resonance for those of us who had similar experiences in the where-ever we did our growing up.

Ogle has authored more than 100 books under his own name as well as under pseudonyms like Trey King, Honest Lee and REY TERCIERO among others.

His novel derring-do is beautifully illustrated by Dave Valeza. This book provides the role models that would have answered many of my questions and helped me understand my feelings during those critical years of other-ness that happened during the last century of the most recent millennium.

Give today’s children what we never had — a sense that though times are tough, there are people who will help us see how our uniqueness is a treasure.

ISBN: 978-1338575071