Author Event: Coach by Jason Reynolds

Frugal Bookstore, in partnership with Roxbury Community College, is excited to welcome award-winning author Jason Reynolds for a special event celebrating the release of Coach, Book #5 in the acclaimed Track series.

Tickets:

You must have a ticket to attend this event. Each ticket is $20.00 (plus Eventbrite fees) and includes one signed hardcover edition of Coach and access to the photo line with Jason Reynolds.

Single attendee ticket: Includes general admission for ONE attendee, with ONE pre-signed book.

Adult with child ticket: Includes general admission for ONE adult and ONE child, with ONE pre-signed book.

Please note:

• A bookseller will take your photo with the author using your cell phone/camera.
• Your copy of COACH included with this ticket will be pre-signed.
• There will be NO personalization - there will be no live signing.
• Additional copies of Coach, as well as select copies of the author's previous books, will be available for purchase at the event while supplies last.

Location:

The program will take place in the Media Arts Auditorium in Building 1 at Roxbury Community College.

Parking:

Guests should park in Parking Lot 1 (P1 on the map; accessible via the entrance of Columbus Ave and Cedar Street). Click Here for Campus Directions & Parking

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About Jason Reynolds:

Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, recipient of the MacArthur Genius Grant, 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, a Coretta Scott King Author Award, 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, Lu, and Coach); Look Both Ways; Stuntboy, in the Meantime; Stuntboy, In-Between Time; Miles Morales Suspended; 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...; and Long Way Down, which 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. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com. (Photo credit: Adedayo "Dayo" Kosoko)

About Coach:

In this companion 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. 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. (Simon & Schuster)

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