{"product_id":"stuntboy-in-the-meantime-9781797111797","title":"Stuntboy, in the Meantime","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2023 AUDIE AWARD FOR MIDDLE GRADE!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNAMED A 2023 ALA NOTABLE CHILDREN'S RECORDING!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Odyssey Children's Award for Audio winner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA Schneider Family Award Honor Book for Middle Grade\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Newbery Medal honoree and #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 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!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePortico 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! \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll this is swell except for Portico's other secret, his not-so-super secret. His parents are fighting \u003ci\u003eall\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003emeans\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnly, 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 \u003ci\u003esuper\u003c\/i\u003e about Portico at all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJason Reynolds is a #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, a two-time National Book Award finalist, a Kirkus Award winner, a UK Carnegie Medal winner, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner, an Odyssey Award Winner and two-time honoree, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors and the Margaret A. Edwards Award. He was also the 2020-2022 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. His many books include \u003ci\u003eAll American Boys\u003c\/i\u003e (cowritten with Brendan Kiely); \u003ci\u003eWhen I Was the Greatest\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Boy in the Black Suit\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eStamped\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAs Brave as You\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eFor Every One\u003c\/i\u003e; the Track series (\u003ci\u003eGhost, Patina, Sunny\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLu\u003c\/i\u003e); \u003ci\u003eLook Both Ways\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eStuntboy, in the Meantime\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAin't Burned All the Bright \u003c\/i\u003e(recipient of the Caldecott Honor) and \u003ci\u003eMy Name Is Jason. Mine Too.\u003c\/i\u003e (both cowritten with Jason Griffin); and \u003ci\u003eLong Way Down\u003c\/i\u003e, which received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. His debut picture book, \u003ci\u003eThere Was a Party for Langston\u003c\/i\u003e, won a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor. He lives in Washington, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50482939920658,"sku":"9781797111797","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6ff0de99-1c8f-47bf-91bb-d52ce9f3e42c.jpg?v=1730352741","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/stuntboy-in-the-meantime-9781797111797","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}