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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2011 | Grades 5-up
Gr 9 Up—In his sophomore year, Fenton Reinstein's voice drops, he begins to grow hair all over his body, and he becomes "stupid fast." Previously indifferent to sports, he instantly becomes a star sprinter and is touted as the next savior of the football team before he has ever played a down. All is not entirely well, however. Fenton's only real friend, Gus, has gone to Venezuela with his family for the summer, and he has to take over Gus's paper route, a job he hates. More ominously, the teen's always-quirky mother, ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on July 1, 2011
Stupid Fast is an inspiring coming-of-age tale with a delightfully strange sensibility reminiscent of Napoleon Dynamite and A. S. King’s Please Ignore Vera Dietz. Geoff Harbach writes not only with humo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More