Coach
$17.29
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2026
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798347102389 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Jason Reynolds |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Atheneum |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 204g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 130mm x 193mm |
| Series: | Track |

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Critics Review
Reynolds does a remarkable job of using pop culture references–from Michael Jackson to Back to the Future–to establish a sense of time and place. As always, his command of language is masterly, with crackling dialogue, propulsive plotting, and adroit characterization: Readers will emerge with a rich portrait of the forces that created the man whose mentorship would have a powerful effect on so many young people. A beautifully executed victory lap for a beloved series. –Kirkus STARRED Review “November 15, 2025 Issue”
Jason Reynolds
Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, a two-time National Book Award finalist, a 2024 MacArthur Fellow, a Kirkus Award winner, a UK Carnegie Medal winner, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner, an Odyssey Award Winner and two-time honoree, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors and the Margaret A. Edwards Award. He was also the 2020-2022 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.
His many books include:
- All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely)
- When I Was the Greatest
- The Boy in the Black Suit
- Stamped
- As Brave as You
- For Every One
- The Track series: Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and Lu
- Look Both Ways
- Stuntboy, in the Meantime
- Ain’t Burned All the Bright (recipient of the Caldecott Honor) and My Name Is Jason. Mine Too. (both cowritten with Jason Griffin)
- Twenty-Four Seconds from Now…
- Long Way Down (received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor)
His debut picture book, There Was a Party for Langston, won a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor.
He lives in Washington, DC.
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