I thoroughly enjoyed the first book of this ... series?... "The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise", and this second book felt like checking back in with wonderful friends. The titular character, Coyote, has settled in at her school, but she's struggling to fit in. She unexpectedly finds the ashes of her deceased mom, and she and her dad decide that it's time to spread the ashes. In fact, Coyote's mom wrote her final instructions in a book... a book that Coyote accidentally gave away! She has to find that book, but she isn't exactly sure which thrift store she gave it to. Somehow Coyote has to convince her dad to go back on the road while she hunts down the book, all without letting him know that she's *lost* it!

Author Dan Gemeinhart does an amazing job of voicing the characters in these books, and there is just so much heart in every single character. I laughed, I cried, my heart went out to every single one. Definitely recommend this middle grades book to kids and adults alike!

My thanks to the author, publisher, and #NetGalley for the opportunity to read an ARC of this book. #CoyoteLostAndFound

This sequel did not disappoint. Coyote and Rodeo are back for another adventure. This time, she is determined to follow her mom's wishes. It's not as easy as she thinks.

Dan Gemeinhart wrote a wonderful sequel/non-sequel for Coyote and Rodeo. This was a wonderful read as Coyote and Rodeo deal with their grief many years later. The journey they go on and the people they meet help her along. There were some really powerful moments that brought me to tears.
This is definitely a book I want my students to read and can’t wait to add it to my classroom library.

Thank you NetGalley, Dan Gemeinhart, and Macmillan’s for allowing me to receive an ARC.

“I mean, the funny thing about stories is that they don't really start or stop at all…It's just the telling that starts or stops. “ -Coyote

I read The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise, and how lucky I was to get approved to read the eARC of Coyote Lost and Found from @netgalley! It felt so good to be back on the bus and back on the road with Coyote and Rodeo!

In the second of Coyote’s adventures, she is on a quest to scatter her mother’s ashes - the only problem is she is not sure where her mother wished to have them spread. So, Coyote leads the quest to figure it out and carry out her mother’s wish.

It is a rarity that I love a companion as much as I love the first book, but I sure do love both of Coyote’s adventures! 💕

This was filled with so many little nuggets of wisdom and life lessons. I highly recommend this heartwarming companion.

Thank you to Henry Holt Books for Young Readers @henryholtbooks @mackidsbooks and @NetGalley for the gifted eARC in exchange for an honest review.

I laughed. I cried. I wanted to take it all in as quickly as possible. I wanted it to last forever. I was ever so grateful to be back in Coyote's world again. 100% recommend this book!

This book was lovely. Such a fitting tribute to follow up Coyote’s remarkable journey. I will forever have a soft spot for the first journey.

Also, I would have loved this book even more if not for the two “GD”s it contained. In my opinion, that is the most vulgar of the vulgarities.

I received an electronic ARC from Macmillan Children's Publishing Group through NetGalley.
Though I'm sad to see this series come to an end, what a powerful way to wrap it up. Readers return to Coyote's world after they have found a place to stay and stop roaming. It's not a smooth transition but they are making it work. Then, she discovers her mom's ashes and her dad tells her more about what her mom wanted. This launches another journey to spread them in a special location. Along the way, readers see Salvador join them and meet other new friends who all climb aboard Yager and travel across the country on a special hunt and an emotional trip. Gemeinhart sets this at the start of the Covid pandemic so readers see this play in the background as well. I appreciate how he handles the various opinions and high emotions as part of the story.
Well worth the read and I finished it with tears in my eyes. Thank you to the author and publisher for taking us along on this journey.

I was so, so happy to see a return of Coyote and co! This one was just as heartfelt, adventurous and fun as the first. There's something so cozy and fun to me about books involving road trips. I especially enjoy meeting new characters along the way, and learning their stories. Readers that enjoyed the first book will definitely love this sequel. Here's to hoping Coyote has more adventures to share!

It was so good to be back with Coyote and Rodeo and some old friends and new friends for their latest adventure. In this companion to The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise, Coyote finds the box containing her mom's ashes and she and her dad decide it might be time to say goodbye and scatter her mom's ashes in her requested resting place. The only problem is, Coyote accidentally left the book with her mom's instructions in it somewhere along the route of their last journey. So, just as COVID shuts down schools, Coyote and her dad and some new friends (and old) head out in Yager (the school bus they travel in) and try to track down the book. Of course lots of adventures happen along the way and lessons are learned. Make sure to have your tissues handy! I highly recommend this heartwarming follow-up to Coyote Sunrise.

“Because we lose a lot, all of us, on our journeys. There’s no way around that. But we find a lot, too, if we’re lucky. And I was.”

It’s not often that a follow-up to a book is as good as the first, but this one may be even be better. It had all the charm of the first book including a road trip on Yager, the bus, that turns out to be so much more. This book is about finding friends, transition and change, grief and loss, and, ultimately, how we let go.

It’s all done with Coyote’s unique weirdness and sweetness. I laughed a lot, but keep the Kleenex handy.

5/5 stars Could I please give it more?

Thanks to NetGalley and MacMillan Children’s Publishing Group for an eARC of this book.

3 questions to get on the bus…
•Favorite book?
•Favorite place in the world?
•Favorite sandwich?

How lucky are we to have another Coyote Sunrise book?!?!

This one is for the fans! Can a sequel be just as good as the first!!!?? Yes… if it’s done by Dan Gemeinhart. If you have not read The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise this is your sign!!! Pick it up!!!

Another bus/cross country adventure with Rodeo & Coyote plus someone familiar and a few newbies you will fall in love with! This book has purpose… which I went into not knowing anything and 💯 was on along for the journey.

What a gift to be able to read a story like this. Whether you are “age appropriate” or 38. Dan has created this “family” of characters that will fill your soul with joy!

Is it to soon to ask for another one?

Thank you Henry Holt and Co. & Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group

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Thank you NetGalley for the ARC of Coyote Lost and Found by Dan Gemeinhart.


I had not read the first book in this series, but I felt like the author gave enough backstory for it to be a standalone. This book is about loss, friendship, love, white lies, and COVID. Going through COVID I wasn't to thrilled to relive it again in a book but it wasn't too bad. The pandemic brought out a lot of things in people that sometimes we not so nice. This book does deal with a racial conflict due to COVID.

I enjoyed my time on the bus with Coyote, Salvador, Rodeo, Candace, Wally, Fig, Ivan and eventually Doreen. Coyote tells a white lie to her Dad in the beginning of the book which killed me. It is hard for me to read a book and know that she is lying/fibbing through most of the story. I would not have been so forgiving as Rodeo. Although Rodeo is much more free flowing than I am.

This book has a lot of golden nuggets of wisdom. It is definitely worth reading.

Without giving away anything these are my two favorite lines:
Once upon a.....
How lucky am I?

The whole premise of this book revolves around Coyote and her dad deciding it is time to go spread her mother's ashes (and school also being closed due to the pandemic). We are reacquainted with several characters from book 1 during this journey while new characters are also included. I read this book in one sitting, and I found it to be just as good as the first. It's definitely another spectacular MG read by Gemeinhart! Like the first book, there's a good mix of humor and heavier topics, which makes this such an excellent reading experience. Plus, you will find yourself rooting for Coyote as she makes bold and questionable choices (like any middle schooler) while also loving the whole cast of supporting characters. Overall, this book is packed with adventure, friendship, and hope!

4.5- This is a remarkable book. Others have said this book is just as good as the first. I would agree to some extent, but I still like the first book the best (the characters shine just a liiiiittle brighter for me). This one... wooo... lots of emotional stuff packed in: grief, parent/child relationships, finding love and hope again, building friendships, having no friends/not fitting in, lying/omitting information to protect someone, messing up and having to face your problems, anger, bullying, and probably a bunch of stuff I'm forgetting. Dan Gemeinhart handles each of these delicate moments with gentleness and care. And wisdom. So many good nuggets in here.

Note- more swearing than the first book, grief, loss, BNE, racism, covid pandemic

Thanks Netgalley for the ARC! All opinions are my own.

Rarely do I think a sequel is as good or better than the original, but this one for sure was! It had all the feels. I just love that Cayote girl!!! She is strong, fierce, witty, and has a heart of gold, but she is human and makes mistakes. We can all be a little more like Cayote!

Coyote Lost and Found is a phenomenal MG book that will have readers laughing out loud on one page, and crying on the next. It's a beautiful balance of humor and dealing with grief. Coyote lost her mother and sisters in a car accident several years ago. It's time for Coyote and her father Rodeo to put mom to rest by scattering her ashes... but where? Coyote takes Rodeo and some special friends on a road trip to discover her mom's wishes for a final resting place. This is a sequel, but readers do not have to read the first book in order to love this one. This was truly one of the best books I've read all year!

There is some questionable language in the book, so this is best suited for older MG readers and beyond.
I highly recommend this book!

TL:DR:
Coyote is back! BUY this! Or, if that is not financially possible, BORROW from your public library!

THE MEANDERING VERSION
Let me start by admitting the obvious: I am biased. Middle-grade fiction is my passion, I adore Dan Gemeinhart's books. And I love the human that is Coyote Sunrise.

Let me now admit another obvious fact: I am not the only one.

So much so that after Dan (if I may call you Dan?) wrote about Coyote in "The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise," small humans with wise brains (who probably called him "Mr. Gemeinhart") said, "Would you please tell us what happens next?"

And so he has.

In "Coyote Lost and Found," we welcome back Coyote, her father, Rodeo, Yager the bus, and of course, Salvador, her best friend who lives far enough away that he needs to text her, even though Coyote doesn't use her phone for texting, she uses it for a daily alarm clock and the occasional proper phone call. Because who wouldn't rather hear their best friend's voice than text?

When the book opens, Coyote is attempting real school, finding it lonely and friendless, and still missing her mama and her sisters, who passed in a car crash we also learn about in the first book.

SIDEBAR: This is a good time to tell you: if you haven't read "The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise," do that before you read "Coyote Lost and Found." This is not a read-backward kind of series (cough cough if we call it a "series," will you write more, Mr. Gemeinhart?)

After Coyote accidentally discovers her mama's ashes in a box, Rodeo and Coyote decide it's time to spread them right out in the secret spot that her mama chose before she died. The only catch? Her mama wrote the secret spot down in a book...which Coyote accidentally donated somewhere in their previous madcap adventure. She doesn't want to tell Rodeo she lost the book. But that means she has to find the book AND bury her mama's ashes, but somehow do the first without telling Rodeo that she doesn't know where to do the second.

Once again, Coyote and Rodeo take their school bus on the road for a trip that crisscrosses the country; encounters lost, wandering, and wondering souls; involves Coyote getting in the kind of trouble that brings the police to puzzle what's going on; tackles questions of love, family, and belonging; and always—in plot arcs and in the skill of the writing itself—celebrates a great story.

I wanted to give this five stars. Here's the catch, and it's one I'm still mulling. Coyote's life is a kind of middle-grade tale that, yes, exists in this world (aka, is "realistic fiction"), but also, is this world but seen through a kaleidoscope: rainbow, sometimes upsidedown, and 150% more delightful.

Do kids have to do things like go to school and hide during lunch in the library and miss their mamas and be jealous of their father's new friends in Coyote's world?

Yes.

Do parents who call themselves names like Rodeo also pull them off to drive across the country in a school bus to random, super-far locations without knowing where they are going because the eleven-year-old is in charge?

Also yes.

There is no Child Protective Services asking about school attendance. There are no vegetables (Colorado's best Tater Tots doesn't count). But you also don't question it. You read in a state of suspended disbelief. Think Kate DiCamillo or Erin Bow. That suspended disbelief is a testament to Dan's talent as a writer. Coyote Sunrise is not just some literary manic pixie dream girl living in the otherwise pedestrian modern United States.

That said.

There's a plotline here around COVID. Without spoilers: it's jarring when it's introduced (school is canceled)—we're suddenly not just in the modern US, but specifically in March 2023. But this is not a pandemic book. It's a madcap pixie dream book....that sometimes slices in pandemic snippets. And they snap you back to reality like a paper cut.

Or, I should say, they did for me.

There's a small plotline that involves COVID, but otherwise, I had a hard time with the pandemic pings, uneven asks about people wearing masks, the occasional offer to the newest wandering soul that the bus could be safer than being somewhere else, a closed shop, and a random drop of the idea that the bus is "like a pod."

Instead of pulling the merry band of riders and/or plot together, each mention can feel like a jolt out of Coyote's world back into ours. And when that happens, you might start to ask those CPS-'n'-vegetable, fact-checking-style questions about her world.

You know.

The kind like a historian watching a movie with her toddler, whom you overhear muttering, "But did lemurs even EXIST during dinosaur times?!"

Now, getting bucked out of the deliciousness of this book with questions like, "They formed a pod?! Wait. Were pods even a thing in March 2023? Did the book just bounce ahead 8 months?" could be just me! I very much may be alone on my lemur historian square feeling like the COVID mentions threw me off balance. Prove me alone and friendless on this, Internet, I welcome it I know if you are reading Dan Gemeinhart, you are kind, so you'll do so with care.

(But while I'm on a lemur historian square asking questions that may not resonate: did anyone feel like Doreen came out of nowhere to have such a role in the final pages / emotional journey? I think Wally could have done this...but oh gosh, now I'm in editing mode. Oh dear, oh dear. Lemur professor wearing leather patches on my elbows. Okay, I'm getting off my square.)

(Also, changing clothes.)

HET-hem! Back to business. In short, now that I've gone long, and also wide, and possibly not very deep: that's why no fifth star. Which, to be fair, I hold for books like, oh, Bridge to Terebithia, so let's be real: four stars is my five stars.

In conclusion: Mr. Gemeinhart (because in my head we would be friends but in reality, it feels rude to call you "Dan,") thank you for answering the question that all of us, big kids and bigger kids, have been asking since we first met Coyote: what happens next?

And thank you, NetGalley, for making an ARC available so I didn't have to sit on my hands and stare at the calendar whilst waiting for the answer!

Thanks to Netgally I got an ARC of this amazing book. Gemeinhart does it again with this sequel to one of my favorite books. Coyote is hands down my favorite main character in a middle grade book ever. She is pure joy, compassion, and resilience. This book made me love her more. She has been through so much trauma yet she is observant of others needs. Coyote hits the road again but this time with a big secret. The story leads the reader on another adventure across the US where we meet new characters and new struggles. I didn't want to put this book down. I laughed, cried, and empathized with each character. I will definitely be recommending this book to my students. It's better than a Reuben sandwich!

Dan Gemeinhart’s emotional sequel did not disappoint! Coyote embarks on a journey to spread her mom’s ashes… without knowing where, or how. Looking for a missing book with answers; finding a lot more along the way.

Sequels never seem to live up to the hype of the first book...kind of what I was thinking before I read Coyote Lost and Found. But, I was so wrong! It is a standalone book, although you really should read The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise!

Coyote and her dad have had their fair share of grief over the last several years. Coyote's mom died and both she and her dad are still stricken with grief. The pair finally settle down, but once again take to the road to spread her mom's ashes. The only catch is that her mom wanted them scattered in a particular place and Coyote has lost the book in which the directions were given.

Coyote is a breath of fresh air, with her strong voice. She is an independent, strong willed, and is s great female lead. While Coyote Lost and Found does deal with the sad topic of death, I found it to be much more. It is witty, heartwarming, and all about new beginnings. What an incredible book!

Thank you to NetGalley and Henry Holt & Co. for the opportunity to read this book!