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Gemeinhart, Dan. THE REMARKABLE JOURNEY OF COYOTE SUNRISE New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2019. IL 5-8 ISBN 9781250196705 6 booktalks |
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Booktalk #1 What is your favorite book? What is your favorite place on Earth? What is your favorite sandwich? The answer to these three questions are the key to being able to board Rodeo and Coyote’s bus and join them on their cross-country travels. When Coyote’s grandmother tells her that the park in their old neighborhood is about to be demolished, Coyote devises a secret plan to get her dad, Rodeo, to drive back “home” so that Coyote can rescue the memory box buried there. Burying the memory box was one of the last things that Coyote did with her mom and two sisters before they were killed in a tragic car accident. Coyote, Rodeo, and their fellow travelers have 4 days to get there, 900 miles to cover per day, and a whole lot obstacles trying to get in the way. And as Coyote and Rodeo get closer to their destination, they discover that going home can sometimes be the hardest journey of all.(Prepared by:Pam Lorentz, Northside Middle School, plorentz@lex2.org) (South Carolina Book Awards, 2020-2021) Booktalk #2 Coyote is a 12-year-old girl who lives and drives around the country on a school bus with her father named Rodeo. They have not gone back home in five years since the death of Coyote’s mother and two sisters. Rodeo was so devastated by the loss that he refuses to go home or to have Coyote call him dad. On their journey Coyote meets some interesting people and they end up coming along for the ride. Along the way Coyote finds out that at a park that was in their hometown is going to be torn down. Coyote must get there before the bulldozers in order to retrieve something that was left there by Coyote, her sisters and her mother. She must find a way to trick her dad into driving back home. Will she make it in time? Read to find out. (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2020-2021) Booktalk #3 Coyote Sunrise wasn’t given this name at birth. Her father gave it to her when he stopped letting her call him dad. After experiencing tragedy, they climb aboard an old school bus and travel the U.S. in an attempt to leave their sorrow behind. (Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Awards, 2021) Booktalk #4 12 year old Coyote Sunrise and her father, Rodeo, have been living in a renovated school bus for the past five years since Coyote’s mother passed away. They travel all over the country following their whims--the only place they won’t go is back home. All of a sudden, Coyote’s grandmother calls to let her know that the place where Coyote, Coyote’s mom, and her sisters buried a memory box is about to be dug up and destroyed. Coyote is desperate to get home to save their box but she has to find a way to steer her dad back home without him knowing where they are going. Along the way they pick up several new friends. (Sunshine State Young Readers Award Books 2020-2021) Booktalk #5 After a tragedy, Coyote and her father Rodeo moved into an old school bus and started driving around the country. When Coyote discovers the last traces of her family are going to be destroyed she tries to trick her father into going back – 3,000 miles – to a place they both tried to forget. Realistic Fiction. (Rhode Island Middle School Book Award 2021)e Booktalk #6 Since the tragic deaths of Coyote’s mother and sisters in a car crash five years ago, she and her dad, Rodeo, have been on the road in an old school bus named Yager - avoiding at all costs their old hometown in Washington State. But when Coyote receives news from her grandmother that the park back home is about to be destroyed, Coyote realizes she needs to get there before the bulldozers can do their job - because buried in that park is a precious memory box which contains objects left by her mother and sisters. Determined Coyote comes up with a plan to trick Rodeo into heading west - and along the way, they collect a cast of diverse characters who are on their own remarkable journeys looking for closure or new beginnings. A story of grief, fellowship, and healing. (Vermont Middle Grade Book Award, 2021) |
| SUBJECTS: Automobile travel -- Fiction. Fathers and daughters -- Fiction. Single-parent families -- Fiction. Grief -- Fiction. |
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