They decide that they should choose superhero identities for themselves, too. While there, Portico and Zola discover that they both love the same television show: Super Space Warriors. Noticing that Portico is upset, Zola and her mother invite him over to their apartment. Then when Herbert directs his teasing at Portico, Portico gets the frets. Portico defends her from the neighborhood bully, Herbert Singletary the Worst. On the first day of school, Portico meets and becomes friends with the new girl in the building, Zola Brawner. The only bad thing about Portico's life is that he lives with the frets, or what his grandmother calls anxiety. Portico lives in Apartment 4D with his mother, Sasha, father, Marvin, grandmother, Gran Gran, and cat, A New Name Every Day. Living here makes him feel like he is living inside a television show. Portico sees the apartment like a castle. Portico Reeves lives in an apartment building called Skylight Gardens. The following guide uses the present tense and a linear plot structure. The accompanying imagery nuances the narrative plot line. The narration employs both the past and present tenses. The text combines playful language and vivid imagery in order to explore complex themes and experiences in a child's life. Jason Reynolds' and Raúl the Third's Stuntboy, In the Meantime is a graphic novel for young readers. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, 2021. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Reynolds, Jason, and Raúl the Third. And he’s not sure his arsenal of stunts can combat that. 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. 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!

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