Coach

Written by Jason Reynolds

Book #5 in the Track series

A young sprinter's prized shoes vanish, leading to a deeper family mystery.

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256 pages· 52,823 words· Est. 6 hour read

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Young Otie Brody dreams of sprinting greatness, inspired by legends and fueled by his new Jordans. But when the shoes disappear overnight, Otie suspects his often-absent father. As he grapples with this mystery, Otie must confront the truth about his father's absences. Can he uncover the secrets hidden in his family, or will his dreams be dashed? The stakes are high as Otie races against time to find his missing shoes and father, questioning everything he thought he knew. Will he sprint to victory or stumble over the truth?

From the publisher

In this companion to Jason Reynolds’s award-winning and New York Times bestselling Track series, meet Coach as a boy striving to come into his own as a track star while facing upheaval at home. Before Coach was the man who gave caring yet firm-handed guidance to Ghost, Lu, Patina, and Sunny on the Defenders track team, he was little Otie Brody, who was obsessed with Mr. 9.99 (a.k.a. Carl Lewis) and Marty McFly from Back to the Future. Like Mr. 9.99–and his own dad–Otie is a sprinter. Sprint free or die is practically his motto. Then his dad, who is always away on business trips, comes home with a pair of Jordans. JORDANS. Fine as fine can be. Otie puts them on and feels like he can leap to the moon…maybe even leap like Mr. 9.99 when he won the Olympic gold medal in the long jump. But one morning he wakes up to find his brand-new secret weapon kicks are missing–right off his feet! And Otie just might have a fuzzy memory of his dad easing them off as Otie was sleeping, but that can’t be right, can it? Unless all the reasons for his dad’s “gone’s” are very different from what he’s been told… Because now, not only are the Jordans missing, but so is his father.

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