
Static: Up All Night
DC Comics (Publisher)
Published on 7. November 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-77951-051-8 (ISBN)
Description
VIRGIL (aka STATIC) can do amazing things with his vast array of electrical abilities, but instantly mending a broken heart isn t in his skill set. Virgil Hawkins has just gone through a bad break up. He can t get over his ex, so his best friend Richie has an idea for how to distract him: attend a music festival in their city of Dakota. But wouldn t you know it his ex is in attendance. And that s just the beginning of his troubles. A series of encounters and events leads to an all-night adventure involving super villains, a diner, a reluctant rapper, and a size-changing kleptomaniac, as well as Virgil s frequent bad decision making. But in the end, with the help of his friends, Virgil will find he can move on from a broken heart.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Young adult
US School Grade: From Eighth Grade to Twelfth Grade, Interest Age: From 13 to 17 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
392 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77951-051-8 (9781779510518)
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LAMAR GILES is a two-time Edgar Award finalist in the YA category, for his debut YA thriller Fake ID (HarperCollins, 2014) and his second YA thriller, Endangered (Harper Collins, 20154). His third YA thriller, Overturned (Scholastic, 2017) was named a Kirkus Best Book of 2017. He is a founding member of We Need Diverse Books. Lamar is a contributor to the YA anthology Three Sides of a Heart (Harper Collins, 2017), the editor of the We Need Diverse Books YA short story anthology Fresh Ink (Random House 2018), a contributor to the forthcoming YA anthology Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America (Harper Collins/Balzer & Bray 2019), and a contributor to the forthcoming We Need Diverse Books middle grade anthology.