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Award-winning local author, John Coy, has written children’s picture books, middle-grade novels, and young adult novels. Coy lives in Minneapolis and visits schools nationally and internationally. We like Coy’s novels for his ability to take meaningful subjects and make them accessible for his target age group. Although his books tend to be geared towards boys, mom’s will also enjoy these books. (Trust me when I tell you that is not always the case with books geared toward little boys.)

My Mighty Journey

This book, publishing October 1, 2019, is the story of the 12000 years of Minnesota told from the perspective of the only major waterfall on the Mississippi River.

I am a powerful waterfall.
I listen.
I pay attention.
I have a long memory.
You might find it hard to believe
but I have moved through time.

More Books by John Coy

10 Picture Books:

1. If We Were Gone: Imagining the World without People
2. On Your Way
3. Night Driving
4. Strong to the Hoop
5. Vroomaloom Zoom
6. Two Old Potatoes and Me
7. Around the World
8. Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball
9. Game Changer: John McLendon and the Secret Game
10. Their Great Gift: Courage, Sacrifice, and Hope in a New Land (Carolrhoda Picture Books)

5 Middle-Grade Novels:

1. For Extreme-Sports Crazy Boys Only
2. Top of the Order
3. Eyes on the Goal
4. Love of the Game
5. Take Your Best Shot

3 Young Adult Novels:

1. Gap Life
2. Crackback
3. Box Out

Get to know John Coy as he talks to Gianna about his book, Their Great Gift, The photographs in this book, by Wing Young Huie, are breathtaking pictures of Minnesota in all different colors. This is a non-fiction book. Or as John likes to say, “It’s a story that is true.”

You can also hear the story of this beautiful book here.

March 3, 2016 – BookHounds Interview of John Coy

BookHounds welcomes John Coy, the author of the new book, Their Great Gift, released March 1, 2016. Go to our BookHounds Page for more local author interviews.

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This article was originally published 9/15/2015
and most-recently updated 12/6/19