Stuntboy In The Meantime

Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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 Ra l 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.
Title: Stuntboy In The Meantime
Author(s): Reynolds Jason, Raul The Third
Publisher: Atheneum/ Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Barcode: 9781534418165
Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/30/2021
Series: Stuntboy
Category: Humorous Stories (Children's / Teenage)