This time, he has screwed up so much that his father kicks him out. Going Liam knows what it means to screw up it seems to be all he is actually good at. Andrew has to find out what he is great at as he did not inherit the family athlete genes. In this book, Felton’s little brother, Andrew, also is figuring out what life is about and what it means to be himself in the shadow of Felton and their father, who had great athletic talent. As Felton writes, he comes to terms with all the good and bad things about himself and gets to meet the family from his father’s side, whom he has always thought wanted nothing to do with his own family. “Nothing Special,” Geoff Herbach This is the sequel to “Stupid Fast.” This book is written in the form of a summer letter written to the girl Felton met in the first book. This book has some football lingo, and a few cool scenes a football fanatic would appreciate, but it also tells a great story about a boy.
Then he realizes he is fast not just fast, but STUPID FAST! All the sudden, Felton is sought out by the track and football coaches and he decides ‘Why not?’ Felton learns his athletic ability comes from his father who died when Felton was young, in fact he learns more about his dead father and has to come to his own conclusion about who he is and who he wants to be and if he wants to give into his genetic abilities and be like his dad, who he realizes he knew nothing real about.
Felton has never much let the other kids bother him with their jokes about his clumsy body or lack of athletic ability until one day he gets angry in PE class and takes off running during an ability test. He has one friend and they are there for each other to find the humor in not being a jock or having a girl or being big in their high school social circles.
“Stupid Fast,” Geoff Herbach Fifteen-year-old Felton Reinstein has always been awkward. Here are a few books I read this summer that I think might interest some of the young guys you wish would read more, and one book, probably not for guys, by a local author that you may enjoy yourself. I’ve found many fiction books over the last decade that my guy readers have loved, so I continue reading books and making special mental notes if I come across a book I think would be good to motivate adolescent males to want to read. In trying to find books for the young men in my classroom, I allow them to tell me what would make a good book, then read, read, read to find books that might just fit their expectations.
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