Stupid Fast by Geoff Herbach 158 pages This book takes place in Bluffton, Wisconsin. The main characters are Felton Reinsteine, Andrew Reinsteine, and Jerri. Felton is the older brother of Andrew, and Jerri is the mother of the two but she wants them to call her Jerri. Felton, as a sophomore, has just grown seven inches over the summer going into his junior year and Andrew is 13 and he can play the piano very well. Felton was the son of a professor at a college near by. When he was five he went into the garage he found his dad dead hanging from a rope. He gets picked on a lot at school and he gets called squirrel nuts because he is always fidgety. Felton has always been small until he grew seven inches. Jerri burnt almost all of the dad’s …show more content…
Some things that are going to challenge him are is friends, his crazy mom, and this new girl that lives down the street that is going to be his girlfriend. He has to try and keep his friends because they weren’t the coolest either so keeping them while he is an athlete will be hard. He will have to take care of his mom because she is starting to do weird things like drink a lot of wine. He will have to try and remain the same person for his girlfriend and not change into a different person because he is becoming an athlete. This is a present daybook in Bluffton, Wisconsin. This is a town that has the city people, the farm people, and the weird people. Everybody in this town fits into one of those categories. Even Felton fits in there with the weird people. Felton is struggling to fit in with the cooler people because they have always been bully’s to him all of his life. He is losing his other friends because he is hanging out with the people that still bully them. Some athletes don’t like that Felton is becoming an athlete because they are afraid that he will take their spot on the football field or on the track team. He is also having a girl problem because he has never been in love or had a serious girlfriend