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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Categories
Children’s, Teenage & Educational

I'M WITH STUPID

Geoff Herbach

Awards for Geoff Herbach's Stupid Fast: •ALA Best Book for Young Adults Selection •Junior Library Guild Selection •CYBILS Young Adult Fiction Winner

Felton Reinstein has never been good with stress. Which is why he's seriously freaking out. Revealing his college choice on national TV? It's a heart attack waiting to happen. Deciding on a major for the next four years of his life? Ridiculous. He barely even knows who he is outside of football. And so...he embarks on The Epic Quest to Be Meaningful. Which leads to: 1. Mentoring a freshman called Pig Boy 2. The state of Wisconsin hating him. 3. His track coach suspending him. 4. The funniest viral video the world has ever seen. 5. A whole new appreciation for his family, his friends, and what's really important in life. Geoff Herbach is a novelist, but he also loves writing for performance. He co-created PowderKeg Live! and is also the co-founder of The Lit 6 Project, a group dedicated to bringing literary storytelling to broader audiences. He teaches creative writing at Minnesota State University-Mankato

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Book Published 2013-05-07 by Sourcebooks

Comments

Felton Reinstein’s world has seemed to spiral out of control before (Stupid Fast, 2011; Nothing Special, 2012), but not quite as spectacularly as in this look at the Wisconsin football phenom’s high school years. The pressure is truly on as Felton, a senior, has to cope with the stresses of college recruitment. When his girlfriend, Aleah, breaks off their long-distance romance, and the brother of the bullied freshman he mentors kills himself, Felton violently unravels. Identifying with Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Felton struggles with his own royal role as sports hero and his father’s legacy as angry suicide. Friends alternately help and hurt him, his mother remains clueless, and a drinking spree puts him in danger of not only getting suspended from sports but also becoming more like his father than he knows. Herbach’s character will continue to resonate with readers. The scenes of college coaches wooing Felton are spectacularly drawn, and his ultimate decisions about his “mortal coil” are anything but facile. Will Herbach follow his hero to Stanford? We can hope.