Stuntboy, in-between time

Title
Stuntboy, in-between time

Personal Author EPSB
Jason, Reynolds

Summary
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 keeping 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.

Other Title
In-between time

Year Published
2023

Series
Stuntboy ;

Volume
#2

Physical Description
257 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm

Subject
Superheroes -- Fiction.
 
Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.

Genre
Superhero fiction.
 
Humorous fiction.

Added Author
Raúl the Third, 1976-

Summary
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 keeping 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.

ISBN
9781534418226

Publisher
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2023]


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Gold BarF REYBook30127000209994Fiction