3.5 StarsFeldon knew he was weird. His younger brother Andrew was obsessed with playing classical music on the piano. His hippie mother, Jerri, insisted her children call her by her first name. Feldon's father had committed suicide when Feldon was only five years' old. Most of the kids at Feldon's school teased him for being scrawny and for being different. To make matters worse, Feldon's best friend Gus was leaving for the summer and Jerri was making him take over his newspaper route. Life wasn't looking too great for the fifteen year old.
Most of the kids at Feldon's school teased him for being scrawny and for being different. To make matters worse, Feldon's best friend Gus was now leaving for the summer and Jerri was making him take over his newspaper route. Life wasn't looking too great for the fifteen-year-old.
What starts out being a lame summer, however, turns out to be the best and worst summer of Feldon's life. Feldon discovers he does have a talent. He's fast. He's not just quick on his feet and a strong runner - he's stupid fast. It doesn't take long for others to notice. Coach Johnson wants him to play Varsity Football. Though Feldon has never played in his life, his speed and agility make him a force to contend with. No longer scrawny, Feldon has a huge growth spurt and is now over 6 feet tall. Once he begins lifting weight, he becomes even bigger and much stronger than many of the other players on the team.
Suddenly, Feldon finds himself in a different world. Several of the town's popular high school athletes are now his best friends. The most beautiful girl in the world, Aleah, has moved into his friend Gus's house for the summer. Despite Feldon's goofiness, she wants to be his girlfriend.
Everything is close to being perfect until Jerri loses it. She begins drinking, hiding in her room, refusing to take care of herself or her family. Andrew has even stopped playing the piano and starts dressing in black - acting as loony as their mother. Felton just has to keep going. He lies to himself that things will get better.
Soon Feldon is unable to keep running – he has to face his problems at home even if he may lose the new better life he has created for himself.
Felton was a short Jewish geek with a big Jew fro.His brother Andrew is in love with playing the piano.Also his mom Jerri insisted that they call her bye Jerri instead of mom.Well this summer was like no other summer.Felton wanted to figure the truth about his father. Felton got called a lot of names.That summer his friend Gus had to go to his Grandmas house, while Felton had to do Gus's paper route.These people had moved in Gus's house while he was gone.When Felton was on his early morning paper route, he had stopped at the has to drop of the paper, and he heard someone playing the piano.Well while he was listening he looked in and saw a black girl with a white like dress.He was staring at her then he was thinking about something.A few minutes later a man came to the door and was like its beautiful and Felton said amazed.Then he started to fill like his pants were like high waters and his shirts had shrunk and that he was growing hair all over his body.Then one day he had when to the pull to meet up with Peter Yang, but he had never showed up. While Felton was walking bye these girls they was laughing at him. Well while he was leaven , his friend (or a boy) named Cody stopped him and asked was he wanting to do work outs with him and he said "yes."So Felton started to do work outs and he had already gotten to know the girl (that leaved in Gus's hose) and became boyfriend and girlfriend. Well one day at practice this boy came up and pushed on one side of the barrel and made Felton druped them and almost got hit in the head with them.So Felotn heart his back.Then one morning Felton had to run and do his paper route and i boy saw him and started to call him FAKER.Then the roomer got around that Felton was a faker and he started to get trash all in his yard.Well months passed and he was over it and Gus had moved back and Felton's girlfriend had moved away.Well one day Felton had called his girlfriend because she told him to, well she shouted that they were going to his game. So that night he saw Gus and his girlfriend at the game.They had one and now Felton was like a giant and he knew the real truth about his fater.
ReplyDeleteFelton Reinstein was a short loser that couldn't play sports of any kind. Then one summer, he hit puberty and grew tall and got very fast. That wasn't the only thing that changed though. He got a girlfriend named Aleah that met while doing his friend, Gus's, paper route. He started out running track, but he decided to play football when Cody and coach were begging him to try. But as Felton got closer to Aleah and into football, he mom pretty much went absolutly insane. As a result of that, his brother, Andrew, went insane as well. Felton then had to take responsibility of the house into his own hands. After a while, it became too much and he had to get help from his grandma. She came and Jerri actually got better. While all of this was going on, Felton had some "friends" that were dropping trash on his yard because he thought he was faking his injury,he decided to take charge but accidentally rocked his friend's car while they were trying to throw him a suprise birthday party. The night before that, his girlfriend left and he was devistated. But that didn't stop him from playing football the next day. At his game, he realized that Aleah, Gus, and his grandma and brother had come to see him. The first play from scrimage, he faced the biggest player in high school and made a fool of him. This led him to the conclusion that he was stupid fast.
ReplyDeleteFelton Rientsien was a short guy that couldnt play any sports at all. Then as summer came he got mature and hit puberty and grew very tall and very fast. As he got older he met this girl name Aleah while he was doin a favor for his friend "Gus". Aleah became Feltons girlfriend and then started running for track. Later on his friend and couch begged him to try out for football. So as Felton and Aleah got closer in there relation and into football, he started drivin his mom and his brother Andrew crazy. Sense Felton is mature enough he started taking resposibillity for his own self. As time past by, he couldnt take it any longer and he had to get some help from somebody and that was his grandma. As Felton was driving his friends car he wreaked it and Felton then got injured and rude friends came and threw trash on his lawn b/c they thought he was faking. Then his girlfriend left and Felton was sad. Then the football game came up and his grandma, his girlfriend Aleah, and Gus were there to see him. As Felton played and faced the biggest player there............ was STUPID FAST.
ReplyDeletei recommend this book, it was great one and i loved it.
Felton Reinstein was a short, jewish kid that was really weird and geeky. He couldn't do almost anything and he had a bestfriend named Guss. Felton grew like a weed during the summer, he started getting hair, muscles, and and much taller. When this happened, all the coaches for every team wanted Felton to be on their team. Well, he went to the pool where his friend was supposed to be and all the other kids were making fun of him and being really meand about how his clothes were too small. Well, Cody was there and him and Cody bacame bestfriends while Guss was gone to live with his grandparents with the summer. Felton was going to go out for the football team, so Cody talked him into going to summer workouts. One day him and Jerri(his mom) got into a big argument and she just stopped caring. Oh, and a girl named Aleah was living in Guss's house for the summer. She and Felton had fallen for each other hard and she liked his weirdness. Well, Felton and his little brother called Jerri's mom (their grandma) and Jerri and her didn't get along. Their Grandma came down and their mom got sent away to a rehab to get better while school started back and their grandma helped them at home and made the house spotless. The book was full of adventure and different situations, I really loved it. I read it Stupid Fast, it was soo good!
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