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.

Lamar Gilesis a two-time Edgar Award finalist in the YA category, for his debut YA thrillerFake 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 anthologyThree Sides of a Heart(Harper Collins, 2017), the editor of the We Need Diverse Books YA short story anthologyFresh Ink(Random House 2018), a contributor to the forthcoming YA anthologyBlack 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.

Paris Alleyneis a Toronto based artist. In 2020, he won a prestigious comic book industry Eisner Award as Best Colorist on a Comic Book Series forAfterliftpublished by Dark Horse. STATIC: UP ALL NIGHT is his first project as an illustrator for DC Comics.

• Publisher: Dc Comics (November 7, 2023)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 208 pages
• ISBN-10: 1779510519
• ISBN-13: 9781779510518
• Reading age: 13 – 17 years
• Grade level: 7 – 9
• Item Weight: 0.035 ounces