From Newbery Medal and Odyssey Award honoree and #1 New York
Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes the sequel to the
hilarious, hopeful, and action-packed middle grade novel Stuntboy, in
the Meantime about the greatest young superhero you've never heard of,
jam packed with illustrations by Raúl the Third!
Portico Reeves is the greatest superhero a lot of people have never
heard of. He likes it that way--then no one can get in the way of him
from keeping other other people safe. Super safe. He's Stuntboy. He's
got the moves. And the saves. Except. There's been one major fail.
He couldn't save his parents from becoming Xs. Which is a word that
sounds like coughing up a hairball. But don't talk to him about the
divorce, because of the hairball thing, and also, it gives Portico the
frets.
What's also giving him frets is his parents living on two separate
floors in their apartment building. He's never fully with one parent or
the other. He's in-between, all the time. The in-between time. And the
elevator is busted, so to get between floors means getting past the
bullies who hang in the stairwells.
So when Portico and new friend, Herbert, and best best friend, Zola,
discover an empty apartment, unlocked, they are psyched. It's a
perfect hideout, and hangout, and it's not half anyone's...it's all
theirs. So they decide to make it their own...let's say with stunts of
the drawing kind. Problem is, that gives some Grown Up People the frets,
which leads to double frets for Portico. And he's not sure his arsenal
of stunts can combat that.
