
Coach
Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books · Hardcover · October 14, 2025
Three starred reviews!
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- Who it’s for
- A slim, voice-first page that leans on Reynolds’ humor and easy authority.
- Genres
- Track & Field Stories, Growing Up, Boys & Men
- Published
- Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, October 14, 2025
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Three starred reviews! In this “beautifully executed victory lap” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) 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.
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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.
Voice Forward
A slim, voice-first page that leans on Reynolds’ humor and easy authority.
Come here for
- Jason Reynolds’ voice
- sports-adjacent wit, plainspoken warmth
Expect
- accessible reading
- kept for the shelf as much as the chair
Where it sits
| Track & Field Stories | 96% |
|---|---|
| Growing Up | 73% |
| Boys & Men | 57% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Track & Field Stories
- Growing Up
- Big Feelings
- Authors
- Jason Reynolds
- Publisher
- Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
- Published
- October 14, 2025
- Format
- Hardcover
- Reading lane
- Track & Field Stories