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I woke up yesterday morning thinking I had just enough time to review Coyote Lost and Found before heading to Costco; I had forgotten, however, that there was a PTA meeting at 9. That went long, I’d promised to help with book fair signage afterward, and so I ended up going straight to Costco from the school. I probably could have posted between picking up my youngest and taking kids to piano lessons, but–I took a nap instead. I am, however, determined to do a better job of keeping up this week, and so here I am, writing my review while our Saturday morning chocolate-chocolate chip-banana muffins bake.
Here’s the thing. It’s a little hard to summarize the plot without ruining discoveries that should be made over the course of reading the book, and so I’ll do my best, but bear with me, okay? Coyote Lost and Found opens with Coyote and Rodeo having settled down, more or less. Coyote, however, is finding that school is not quite what she’d hoped it would be, and so she isn’t sad at all when March of 2020 happens and schools are closed for a while. The timing, however, is perfect for another reason; having recently discovered the box containing her mother’s ashes, she and Rodeo are feeling like it might be time to lay them to rest. Only there is a bit of a snag that has to be dealt with first, which is how they end up back on Yager, crossing the country and picking up the occasional new friend along the way. To say much more feels wrong, but if I was thinking that Dan Gemeinhart couldn’t possibly write a sequel to The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise that was as good (and as full of all the feels), I was pretty much wrong. Coyote Lost and Found is a bit of a different kind of good, sure, but I read it aloud to my 15-year-old, and I think she would have had me read the entire book in one sitting if she could have. (As it was, we finished it in a marathon read of 90 pages or so, and that isn’t easy when you’re reading aloud.) If you loved the first book, read its sequel; if you haven’t read the first book, go out and read them both.
It’s that simple.