Stuntboy, in the Meantime, Jason Reynolds
Stuntboy, in the Meantime, Jason Reynolds
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Stuntboy, in the Meantime

Author: Jason Reynolds

Narrator: Guy Lockard, Nile Bullock, Angel Pean, James Fouhey, Soneela Nankani, Leon Nixon, Chanté McCormick, Lamarr Gulley, DePre Owens

Unabridged: 2 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/30/2021


Synopsis

WINNER OF THE 2023 AUDIE AWARD FOR MIDDLE GRADE!
NAMED A 2023 ALA NOTABLE CHILDREN’S RECORDING!

An Odyssey Children’s Award winner
A Schneider Family Award Honor Book for Middle Grade

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 Jason Reynolds

Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, recipient of the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, a two-time National Book Award finalist, a 2024 MacArthur Fellow, 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, a Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Margaret A. Edwards Award. He was also the 2020–2022 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. His many books include All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely); When I Was the GreatestThe Boy in the Black SuitStampedAs Brave as YouFor Every One; the Track series (Ghost, Patina, SunnyLu, and Coach); Look Both WaysStuntboy, in the MeantimeStuntboy, In-Between TimeMiles Morales SuspendedAin’t Burned All the Bright (recipient of the Caldecott Honor) and My Name Is Jason. Mine Too. (both cowritten with Jason Griffin); Twenty-Four Seconds from Now...; and Long Way Down, which received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. His debut picture book, There Was a Party for Langston, won a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor. He lives in Washington, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com.


Reviews

Honestly, at this point I'm not sure that there isn't a book that Jason Reynolds can't write. Anything that he writes is something that I'm willing to check out. This book was no different and I absolutely loved the full cast audio with all of the varied sound effects. I can't wait to get my hands o......more

Goodreads review by Traci

This one is so cute. The art is so good. I love Jason’s play with language and words. Also talking to young kids about anxiety is so important.......more

Goodreads review by Hannah

2022 Best Books of the Year [#06 of 11]......more

I read this to my 8-year-old over the course of a week, and he and I both loved it SO much! Stuntboy, in the Meantime is a heavily illustrated novel that also includes some comic strip sections, and the writing (by Jason Reynolds) and the art (by Raúl the 3rd) are both bursting with vibrant energy a......more

Goodreads review by Octavia

Portico Reeves has a secret. Secretly, he turns into "Stuntboy" to help deal with his anxiety called "the frets." And, uses his Superpowers to make things right and Safe. With this middle school age book, Jason Reynolds has knocked it out! After reading the printed edition, I just had to listen to......more


Quotes

"With endless energy, verve, and style, Guy Lockard is a total superstar narrating this middle-grade novel about Portico Reeves, aka Stuntboy."

"This adaptation is a special and unique audio experience, and along with Jason Reynolds's smart, funny, empathetic writing that meets kids where they are, it's guaranteed to catch and keep the attention of even the most reluctant reader or listener."