Jason Reynolds, Raúl the Third, and Jerry Craft for STUNTBOY, IN THE MEANTIME

We are absolutely delighted to welcome Loyalty faves Jason Reynolds, Raúl the Third, and Jerry Craft to celebrate the release of Stuntboy, In the Meantime! This event will be held virtually via Crowdcast. This is a ticketed event and you must purchase a copy of Stuntboy below to be registered for the event.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

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 THE AUTHOR

Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books for young people, including Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten BlocksAll American Boys (with Brendan Kiely), Long Way Down, and Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (with Ibram X. Kendi). The recipient of a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, an NAACP Image Award, and multiple Coretta Scott King honors, Reynolds is also the current National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. He lives in Washington, DC.

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

Raúl the Third is an award-winning illustrator, author, and artist living in Boston. His work centers around the contemporary Mexican American experience and his memories of growing up in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Raúl contributed to the SpongeBob Comics series and illustrated the Texas Bluebonnet Award–winning Lowriders in Space and the Pura Belpré Award–winning Lowriders to the Center of the Earth, both written by Cathy Camper. His illustrations are also featured in the middle grade novel Stuntboy, in the Meantime by Jason Reynolds.

ABOUT THE IN CONVERSATION PARTNER

Jerry Craft is a New York Times bestselling author-illustrator who has worked on numerous picture books, graphic novels, and middle grade novels, including the Newbery award-winning graphic novel, New Kid. Jerry is the creator of Mama’s Boyz, an award-winning syndicated comic strip. He has won five African American Literary Awards and is a cofounder of the Schomburg Center’s Annual Black Comic Book Festival. He received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts and now lives in Connecticut. Visit him online at www.jerrycraft.com.

Please note Loyalty has a zero tolerance policy for harassment or intimidation of any kind during this virtual event. 

Event date: 
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 - 6:00pm
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Stuntboy, in the Meantime By Jason Reynolds, Raúl the Third (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Jason Reynolds, Raúl the Third (Illustrator)
$13.99
ISBN: 9781534418165
Availability: On Our Shelves Now - Click on the title to see which location!
Published: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books - November 30th, 2021

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning By Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780316453691
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - March 10th, 2020

Long Way Down By Jason Reynolds Cover Image
$12.99
ISBN: 9781481438261
Availability: On Our Shelves Now - Click on the title to see which location!
Published: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books - April 2nd, 2019

Lowriders in Space By Cathy Camper Cover Image
$9.99
ISBN: 9781452128696
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Published: Chronicle Books - November 4th, 2014

Lowriders to the Center of the Earth By Cathy Camper Cover Image
$9.99
ISBN: 9781452138367
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Published: Chronicle Books - July 5th, 2016

Lowriders Blast from the Past By Cathy Camper, Raul the Third (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Cathy Camper, Raul the Third (Illustrator)
$9.99
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ISBN: 9781452163161
Published: Chronicle Books - October 2nd, 2018

New Kid: A Newbery Award Winner By Jerry Craft, Jerry Craft (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Jerry Craft, Jerry Craft (Illustrator)
$12.99
ISBN: 9780062691194
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Published: Quill Tree Books - February 5th, 2019

Class Act: A Graphic Novel By Jerry Craft, Jerry Craft (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Jerry Craft, Jerry Craft (Illustrator)
$12.99
ISBN: 9780062885500
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Published: Quill Tree Books - October 6th, 2020

New Kid Sketchbook: A Place for Your Cartoons, Doodles, and Stories By Jerry Craft Cover Image
$14.99
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ISBN: 9780593232262
Published: Clarkson Potter - August 3rd, 2021