56 pages • 1 hour read
Dan GemeinhartA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Coyote begins looking for places on the road with pay phones so she can call her grandmother, who she calls every Saturday. She cannot find a pay phone and neither she nor her father have cellphones, so she borrows a phone from an elderly woman to call her grandmother in Washington. They have a typical conversation, repeating many of the same things that they usually say to one another. Her grandmother asks where they are, and Coyote asks the woman whose phone she borrowed their location. She tells her grandmother that she and Rodeo are in Naples, Florida. As her grandmother is about to hang up, she tells Coyote that the little park at the end of the street where she lived five years ago is about to be torn down for a new roadway. Her grandmother tells her that the park is to be bulldozed on Wednesday. Coyote immediately reacts, saying she is returning to Washington.
Since her conversation is taking place on Saturday, Coyote realizes she and her father must drive from Naples, Florida, to Washington in four days. Coyote expresses complete determination that there is no doubt she is coming back. She says, “Then I said something I hadn’t said in over five years.
By Dan Gemeinhart
Action & Adventure
View Collection
Action & Adventure Reads (Middle Grade)
View Collection
Books that Teach Empathy
View Collection
Childhood & Youth
View Collection
Coming-of-Age Journeys
View Collection
Coping with Death
View Collection
Diverse Voices (Middle Grade)
View Collection
Family
View Collection
Fathers
View Collection
Friendship
View Collection
Grief
View Collection
Juvenile Literature
View Collection
Memory
View Collection
Philosophy, Logic, & Ethics
View Collection
Realistic Fiction (Middle Grade)
View Collection
School Book List Titles
View Collection
Valentine's Day Reads: The Theme of Love
View Collection