Details

ISBN-10: 1643753819
ISBN-13: 9781643753812
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publish Date: 10/01/2024
Dimensions: 8.45" L, 5.85" W, 1.08" H

Boy 2.0

Hardcover

Price: $16.99

Overview

An action-packed superhero story from New York Times bestselling author Tracey Baptiste

Win “Coal” Keegan has just landed in his latest foster home, with a big, noisy, slightly nosy family named the McKays. They seem eager to welcome Coal, but he’s wary of trusting them. So, he doesn’t tell them that he went for a walk with chalk in his pocket to cover a nearby street with his art. He doesn’t tell them that a neighbor found Coal drawing, pulled a gun on him, and fired it. He doesn’t tell them the police chased him. And he definitely doesn’t tell them that when everything went down, Coal somehow turned invisible.

But he did.

Now he has to figure out how. Is he a superhero? Some kind of mutant? A science experiment? Is that why he has no family of his own? As Coal searches for answers and slowly learns to control his invisibility, he turns to the McKay kids and friends both new and old for help. But they soon discover they’re not the only ones looking for a Black boy with superpowers, and the situation is far stranger–and more dangerous–than they ever could have expected.

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I'm honestly not sure how Baptiste spun biology, anthropology, chemistry, politics, and foster care into a suspenseful romp about family and the extraordinary nature of ordinary people, but she did. And it's masterful. Is Boy 2.0 the origin story of our new favorite superhero? Or a metaphoric nod to the lives of everyday Black boys in America? Or...both? Either way, this is a special, special read.–Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author of Long Way Down and Twenty-Four Seconds from Now
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Details

ISBN-10: 1643753819
ISBN-13: 9781643753812
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publish Date: 10/01/2024
Dimensions: 8.45" L, 5.85" W, 1.08" H
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