But the format also makes the story feel like less a story and more like a snapshot. The structure of Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel provides a really cool, close-up look at Miles and his inner life, feelings, thoughts, worries, memories, and hopes. There's a brief mention of a neighborhood man who "bums cigarettes and lighters." Strong language includes a few instances of "s-t," "a-hole," "ass," and "crap."Ī fast read that has lots of poetry mixed in with its prose, this superhero "day in the life" story feels like reading a moment-to-moment stream of Miles' thoughts throughout the day. Miles also tells a story about catching his ex-girlfriend kissing someone else - after he confronted her about it, she told him that she did it to learn how to better kiss him and proceeded to "kiss him with tongue." Miles also pines for a girl throughout the story, sending her notes and poetry. Some illustrations depict the fight and the monster in silhouette, but none are detailed. Miles punches and kicks the monster, and it slashes and swipes back, drawing blood on Miles' cheek once. Violence is limited to a battle against a big bug monster. The teacher's biased treatment of Miles is shown, but he resists the teacher's attempts to embarrass him.
He has to deal with a termite infestation, racist teachers, and an in-school suspension. While attending school in New York City, Miles navigates life as a Black teenager, which too often means others making unfair assumptions about the type of person he is. Reynolds returned to poetry with Long Way Down (2017), a novel in verse which was named a Newbery Honor book, a Printz Honor Book, and best young adult work by the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Awards.Parents need to know that Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel is a young adult novel about Miles Morales (Spider-Man) figuring out who he is as a 16-year-old teenager.
He focused on poetry for approximately the next two decades, only reading a novel cover to cover for the first time at age 17 and publishing several poetry collections before he published his own first novel, When I Was The Greatest, in 2014. He won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent for this first work of prose and seven more novels followed in the next four years, including Ghost (2016) and two more books in what became his New York Times best-selling Track series, Patina (2017) and Sunny (2018) As Brave As You (2016), winner of the 2016 Kirkus Prize, the 2017 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Youth/Teen, and the 2017 Schneider Family Book Award and a Marvel Comics novel called Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2017). Born in Washington, DC and raised in neighboring Oxon Hill, Maryland, Reynolds found inspiration in rap to begin writing poetry at nine years old.
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