{"product_id":"stuntboy-in-the-meantime","title":"Stuntboy, in the Meantime","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Schneider Family Award Honor Book for Middle Grade\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Newbery Medal honoree and #1\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestselling 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\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAll this is swell except for Portico's other secret, his not-so-super secret. His parents are fighting \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003emeans\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003esuper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e about Portico at all.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atheneum Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43969041662051,"sku":null,"price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/0198\/0771\/files\/stuntboy.jpg?v=1769453367","url":"https:\/\/rollingrabbitbooks.com\/products\/stuntboy-in-the-meantime","provider":"Rolling Rabbit Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}