dan gemeinhart the remarkable journey of coyote sunrise

And not all families are blood relations, and sometimes you sacrifice for those you love.Īll of Gemeinhart’s books feature an important animal, and this book doesn’t disappoint. She’ll figure out how to get them the rest of the way when they get to Montana.īut what Coyote doesn’t expect is that the people she recruits to help them, and the people who help her, come to mean as much to her as family. So when they are in Naples, Florida, she suddenly gets a hankering for that perfect pulled pork sandwich from that sandwich shop in Butte, Montana. But she can’t let Rodeo know that that’s where they are going.

So when Coyote learns, during her weekly phone call to her Grandmother, that a park is being demolished in their former home town, she knows that she must go back, and get there and dig up the memory box she, her mother and her sisters buried there just before the accident. But as Gemeinhart touchingly shows readers, the past can’t stay buried, and people who are gone still need to be part of our lives. Her dad insists they move forward and not dwell on the past. Pulled pork sandwich? The best one is at Pork Chop John’s Sandwich Shop, in Butte, Montana.Ĭoyote and her father have endured tragedy together - Coyote’s mother and two sisters were killed in a auto accident five years earlier and since that time, Coyote doesn’t call Rodeo “Dad,” nor do they ever talk about their family. Want to walk on the beach? They’d head for the coast. With “The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise,” Dan Gemeinhart once again shows his writing super-power ability to simultaneously amuse, touch, fascinate, and grab readers by the heartstrings as they race through this story of a girl and her father who live a peripatetic life, traveling from place to place in their rehabbed school bus.Ĭoyote and her father, Rodeo, have lived on Yager, their converted school bus, and traveled wherever their whims have taken them.

Dan gemeinhart the remarkable journey of coyote sunrise