John Coy





John Coy

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John Coy is an award-winning author, who worked as a dishwasher, mattress maker, group home worker, and tour guide before taking up writing. He's active in sports and is a member of the NBA Reading All-Star Team as part of the Read to Achieve program. John has traveled to all fifty states as well as to many countries internationally.

His work includes Night Driving, a Marion Vannett Ridgway Memorial Award winner and a Horn Book Fanfare title, Strong to the Hoop, an American Library Association Notable Book, Two Old Potatoes and Me, a Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book, a Nickelodeon Jr.'s Best Books of the Year, and a featured book on Reading Rainbow, and Vroomaloom Zoom, a book of excellence on the Children's Literature Choice List. His newest p...more


Average rating: 3.75 · 673 ratings · 220 reviews · 17 distinct works
Crackback
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 342 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions
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Box Out
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
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Top of the Order
3.27 of 5 stars 3.27 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
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Two Old Potatoes and Me
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions
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Night Driving
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4.39 of 5 stars 4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
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Strong to the Hoop
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3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions
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Eyes on the Goal
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
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Around the World
2.67 of 5 stars 2.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2005
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Love of the Game
2.88 of 5 stars 2.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
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Vroomaloom Zoom
2.75 of 5 stars 2.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions
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More books by John Coy…
Top of the Order Eyes on the Goal Love of the Game Take Your Best Shot
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3.283582089552239 of 5 stars 3.28 avg rating — 67 ratings

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