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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.About the Author
Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, a two-time National Book Award finalist, a Kirkus Award winner, a Carnegie Medal winner, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors. He's also the 2020-2021 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. His many books include All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely), When I Was the Greatest, The Boy in the Black Suit, Stamped, As Brave as You, For Every One, the Track series (Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and Lu), Look Both Ways, and Long Way Down, which received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. He lives in Washington, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com. Raúl the Third is an award-winning illustrator, author, and artist living in Boston. His work centers around the contemporary Mexican American experience and his memories of growing up in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Raúl contributed to the SpongeBob Comics series and illustrated the Texas Bluebonnet Award-winning Lowriders in Space and the Pura Belpré Award-winning Lowriders to the Center of the Earth, both written by Cathy Camper. His illustrations are also featured in the middle grade novel Stuntboy, in the Meantime by Jason Reynolds.Dimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x .7 Inches (W) x 6 Inches (D)
Weight: 1 Pounds
Suggested Age: 9-12 Years
Number of Pages: 256
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Sub-Genre: Humorous Stories
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Format: Hardcover
Author: Jason Reynolds
Language: English
Street Date: November 30, 2021
TCIN: 82627579
UPC: 9781534418165
Item Number (DPCI): 059-12-6480
Origin: Made in the USA
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Stuntboy Review
4 out of 5 stars
Thumbs up graphic, would recommend
A Fourth Grade Student - 2 years ago
Were you ever bored reading the same book over and over again and you are just tired of it? Well then you should read Stuntboy. In my opinion I think Stuntboy is a four star book. My first reason is the illustrations are really good because you can read the book, then you can see what is going on inside the book. When you look at the picture it is like a comic feeling and gives information. The one good thing that the illustrator is very good at is drawing Portico. Also I think the text size is so good that you can see all of the words from a few feet away. If you have trouble reading you should read Stuntboy because the text size is so good. The print is so good and I could read it so fast because the author chose the best text size. One more thing about the book is the action lead. It is so good for the audience because you want to have a good start of the book so it sucks them into the book. Also in the lead of the book the illustrator made it look like Portico was fighting in a movie scene! That is why I think this book deserves 4! You should try reading it yourself!
Great books for boys
5 out of 5 stars
Thumbs up graphic, would recommend
Tlocmama - 3 years ago
My son loves this book! The storyline is great and he loves everything about it! He can’t wait until the next one comes out!
Great from cover to cover
5 out of 5 stars
Thumbs up graphic, would recommend
Jade88 - 3 years ago, Verified purchaser
The drawings and illustrations are wonderful. Children's books are so much more inclusive and inspirational in more ways than reading. I hope its one of my granddaughters favorites.