Although Ganke’s role is spare in this volume, readers will delight in this spirited character as he supports his bestie Miles and provides extra comic relief during stressful situations. Miles is complex, as he courageously argues for books to “try to read and write themselves free” and attempts to grab Alicia’s attention by writing poetry, which is realistically awkward and sweet. As tensions build, the termites embody censorship, a powerful topic brought up often via current events in schools and prisons across the country. The hybrid verse/prose format adds to the action-packed story line and provides an amusing, banter-filled tone, which Reynolds is exceptionally skilled at for drawing in even the most reluctant of readers. Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel

Mine Too. (both cowritten with Jason Griffin) and Long Way Down, which received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor.

His many books include All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely) When I Was the Greatest The Boy in the Black Suit Stamped As Brave as You For Every One the Track series ( Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and Lu) Look Both Ways Stuntboy, in the Meantime Ain’t Burned All the Bright (recipient of the Caldecott Honor) and My Name Is Jason. He was also the 2020–2022 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, a two-time National Book Award finalist, 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, the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors, and the Margaret A. Yeah, just a typical day in the life of your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. His spidey-sense is telling him there’s something not quite right here, and soon he finds himself in a fierce battle with an insidious…termite?! His unexpected foe is hiding a secret, one that could lead to the destruction of the world’s history-especially Black and Brown history-and only Miles can stop him. And the grand prize Miles gets for that is…īut what begins as a long boring day of in-school suspension is interrupted by a little bzzz in his mind. Oh! Except, just yesterday, he used his spidey superpowers to save the world (no biggie) from an evil mastermind called The Warden. He has unexpectedly become totally obsessed with poetry and can never seem to do much more than babble around his crush.

Miles Morales is still just your average teenager. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes the high-flying sequel to his groundbreaking young adult novel Miles Morales: Spider-Man about the adventures of the unassuming, everyday kid who just so happens to be Spider-Man.

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