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Aug 11, 2019
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise is filled with hope, happiness and sorrow. Coyote is a twelve year old girl who lives in a school bus with her dad Rodeo and later a cat named Ivan. When Coyote learns that a park in Poplin Springs, where she was raised for seven years, is about to be torn down, she tricks her dad to go there. Coyote buried a memory box with her mom and sisters under a tree and wants to retrieve it. This is understandable since the memory box was buried before her mom and sisters died in a car accident. Coyote has to trick Rodeo to drive her there because it's to painful for Rodeo to return. Coyote makes lots of friends on the way to Poplin Springs and everything is going smoothly until Rodeo finds out he is being tricked. Coyote convinces Rodeo to continue to drive to Poplin Springs and everything is back on track until a policeman stops them. One of the passengers, Val, is seventeen, under age. Val claimed she was nineteen, so they let her onto the bus but the policeman doesn't know that so he arrests Rodeo and tells Val to follow him. He leaves Coyote, Salvador and Lester, two other passengers, on the bus by themselves. Coyote knows how to drive so she drives to Poplin Springs, dodges the police and retrieves the memory box. Rodeo is freed from the police so Coyote and Rodeo get in the bus and drive of to a new adventure. Coyote said "There are lots of happy things in the world and sad things". That's truer for Coyote than for anyone else in the world as she has experienced more than her share of happiness and sorrow. The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise truly is remarkable.