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I started off reading this, but ended up listening and reading at the same time for the best experience! Highly recommend doing it that way! The community and setting remind me of Deacon King Kong, even though the stories are quite different! Great MG read about anxiety, divorce, and friendships!

I listened to this because it won ALA‘s Odyssey audio award in the children‘s category. Talk about high energy in this full cast production complete with sound effects! Stuntboy, the “greatest superhero you‘ve never, ever heard of,” gets “the frets” when his parents start arguing, but family dysfunction and anxiety don‘t detract from the warmth and joy of this slice-of-African-American-life tale for kids aged 7-11. For Captain Underpants fans.

I‘m at the main info booth if anyone wants to come and say hello. I‘ll be staying for Jason Reynolds on the YA stage at 6:00 before I figure out what I‘m doing for dinner. I can‘t remember who else was on the list to tag…

#nationalbookfestival

Portico Reeves has a secret, he is Stuntboy… in the meantime. His superpower? Making the world a better place for those around him. However, he recently learned that he will soon be splitting his time between two apartments, which gives him a serious case of the frets! What‘s a boy… I mean superhero to do when his world is turning upside down?! I binged the audiobook in one day, I couldn‘t stop listening! Highly recommend!!

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Jason Reynolds always kills it. He makes the settings and characters in everyday life feel so vivid and magical, while still honest and genuine. He invites us into spaces warm and confusing and hopeful. He‘s an adult who remembers, so clearly, the power and the humor and the love in a child‘s perspective. Where apartment buildings can be castles and building supers can be superheroes. This was such a joy to read.

I am in a reading funk today. I bailed on my audiobook and print book today. Hoping this graphic novel does the trick. Also everything that Jason Reynolds writes is amazing!