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Stuntboy, in the meantime / by Jason Reynolds ; drawings by Raúl the Third.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Reynolds, Jason. Stuntboy ; bk. #1.Publisher: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2021]Edition: First editionDescription: 257 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • Children
ISBN:
  • 9781534418165
  • 1534418164
Other title:
  • Stunt boy
  • In the meantime
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: Portico Reeves' secret identity as Stuntboy allows him to use his superpower keep everybody safe, but when his superhero parents start fighting a lot he feels the responsibility to save them.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's Fiction REYNOLDS JASON 1 Available 33111010625628
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Fiction REYNOLDS JASON 1 Available 33111010769038
Children's Book Children's Book Northport Library Children's Fiction REYNOLDS JASON 1 Available 33111009869583
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A Schneider Family Award Honor Book for Middle Grade

From Newbery Medal honoree and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a hilarious, hopeful, and action-packed middle grade novel about the greatest young superhero you've never heard of, filled with illustrations by Raúl the Third!

Portico Reeves's superpower is making sure all the other superheroes--like his parents and two best friends--stay super. And safe. Super safe. And he does this all in secret. No one in his civilian life knows he's actually...Stuntboy!

But his regular Portico identity is pretty cool, too. He lives in the biggest house on the block, maybe in the whole city, which basically makes it a castle. His mom calls where they live an apartment building. But a building with fifty doors just in the hallways is definitely a castle. And behind those fifty doors live a bunch of different people who Stuntboy saves all the time. In fact, he's the only reason the cat, New Name Every Day, has nine lives.

All this is swell except for Portico's other secret, his not-so-super secret. His parents are fighting all the time. They're trying to hide it by repeatedly telling Portico to go check on a neighbor "in the meantime." But Portico knows "meantime" means his parents are heading into the Mean Time which means they're about to get into it, and well, Portico's superhero responsibility is to save them, too--as soon as he figures out how.

Only, all these secrets give Portico the worry wiggles, the frets, which his mom calls anxiety. Plus, like all superheroes, Portico has an arch-nemesis who is determined to prove that there is nothing super about Portico at all.

"A Caitlyn Dlouhy book."

"Live in front of a studio audience."

Ages 7 to 12 Simon and Schuster.

Portico Reeves' secret identity as Stuntboy allows him to use his superpower keep everybody safe, but when his superhero parents start fighting a lot he feels the responsibility to save them.

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