Problem is, that gives some Grown Up People the frets, which leads to double frets for Portico. So they decide to make it their own…let’s say with stunts of the drawing kind. It’s a perfect hideout, and hangout, and it’s not half anyone’s…it’s all theirs. So when Portico and new friend, Herbert, and best best friend, Zola, discover an empty apartment, unlocked, they are psyched. And the elevator is busted, so to get between floors means getting past the bullies who hang in the stairwells. He’s never fully with one parent or the other. What’s also giving him frets is his parents living on two separate floors in their apartment building.
But don’t talk to him about the divorce, because of the hairball thing, and also, it gives Portico the frets. Which is a word that sounds like coughing up a hairball. He couldn’t save his parents from becoming Xs. He likes it that way-then no one can get in the way of him from keeping other other people safe. Portico Reeves is the greatest superhero a lot of people have never heard of. Plus, like all superheroes, Portico has an arch-nemesis who is determined to prove that there is nothing super about Portico at all.From Newbery Medal 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! Only, all these secrets give Portico the worry wiggles, the frets, which his mom calls anxiety. 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. In fact, he’s the only reason the cat, New Name Every Day, has nine lives.Īll this is swell except for Portico’s other secret, his not-so-super secret. And behind those fifty doors live a bunch of different people who Stuntboy saves all the time. But a building with fifty doors just in the hallways is definitely a castle.
His mom calls where they live an apartment building. He lives in the biggest house on the block, maybe in the whole city, which basically makes it a castle. No one in his civilian life knows he’s actually…Stuntboy!īut his regular Portico identity is pretty cool, too.
Portico Reeves’s superpower is making sure all the other superheroes-like his parents and two best friends-stay super. A Schneider Family Award Honor Book for Middle Gradeįrom 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!
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