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SUMMARY:Beloved Characters & Powerful Portrayals of Resilience
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DESCRIPTION:Join us in conversation with bestselling author Jason Reynolds
  as we discuss his latest work\, Coach\, the fifth–and last–
 entry in the highly popular Track series.  .\nhttps://edisonpubliclibrary.
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><strong>**Questions for the speaker can be
  submitted on the Registration page.**</strong></p>\n<p>Join us in convers
 ation with bestselling author Jason Reynolds as we discuss his latest work
 \,&nbsp\;Coach\, the fifth&ndash\;and last&ndash\;entry in the highly popu
 lar&nbsp\;Track&nbsp\;series. Following the immersive stories of Ghost\, L
 u\, Patina\, and Sunny\, it&rsquo\;s finally time for Coach to shine in hi
 s own book as we discover: Who was Coach before he became an inspiring lea
 der?</p>\n<p>Before Coach was the man who gave caring yet firm-handed guid
 ance to Ghost\, Lu\, Patina\, and Sunny on the Defenders track team\, he w
 as little Otie Brody\, who was obsessed with Mr. 9.99 (a.k.a. Carl Lewis) 
 and Marty McFly from&nbsp\;Back to the Future. Like Mr. 9.99&mdash\;and hi
 s own dad&mdash\;Otie is a sprinter. Sprint free or die is practically his
  motto.</p>\n<p>Then his dad\, who is always away on business trips\, come
 s home with a pair of Jordans. JORDANS. Fine as fine can be. Otie puts the
 m on and feels like he can leap to the moon&hellip\;maybe even leap like M
 r. 9.99 when he won the Olympic gold medal in the long jump. But one morni
 ng he wakes up to find his brand-new secret weapon kicks are missing&mdash
 \;right off his feet! And Otie just might have a fuzzy memory of his dad e
 asing them off as Otie was sleeping\, but that can&rsquo\;t be right\, can
  it?</p>\n<p>Unless all the reasons for his dad&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;gone&rsqu
 o\;s&rdquo\; are very different from what he&rsquo\;s been told&hellip\; B
 ecause now\, not only are the Jordans missing\, but so is his father.</p>\
 n<p>Register now to join in on the conversation about the final installmen
 t to Jason Reynold&rsquo\;s&nbsp\;Track&nbsp\;series!&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><stro
 ng>About the Author:</strong>&nbsp\;Jason Reynolds is an award-winning and
  #1 New York Times bestselling author. Jason&rsquo\;s many books include&n
 bsp\;Miles Morales: Spider Man\, the&nbsp\;Track&nbsp\;series (Ghost\, Pat
 ina\, Sunny\, and Lu)\,&nbsp\;Long Way Down\, which received a Newbery Hon
 or\, a Printz Honor\, and a Correta Scott King Honor\, and&nbsp\;Look Both
  Ways\, which was a National Book Award Finalist. Recently named the Natio
 nal Ambassador for Young People&rsquo\;s Literature\, Jason has appeared o
 n&nbsp\;The Daily Show&nbsp\;with Trevor Noah\,&nbsp\;Late Night&nbsp\;wit
 h Seth Meyers\, and&nbsp\;CBS This Morning. He is on faculty at Lesley Uni
 versity\, for the Writing for Young People MFA Program and lives in Washin
 gton\, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com.</p>\n<p></p
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