{"id":2850,"date":"2013-10-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2020-07-11T17:37:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T22:37:53","slug":"im-with-stupid-by-geoff-herbach-book-review-play-football-where-change-life-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=2850","title":{"rendered":"I’m With Stupid, by Geoff Herbach (book review) – play football where? change life how?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookStress!
\nDecisions!
\nPressure<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Felton’s senior year was never going to be a cakewalk, but knowing that his college choice will be televised live on ESPN<\/a>!?!? The road trip craziness of the previous summer chronicled in Nothing Special <\/em> (my no-spoiler review here<\/a>) was nothing compared to this!<\/p>\n

Ask for I’m With Stupid<\/em>\u00a0 at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> (just saying the title is crazy) and also read YA authors’ own teen-wacky stories at I’mWithStupidStories<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ever had an out-of-control situation like Felton’s?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: I’m With Stupid \/ Geoff Herbach. Sourcebooks Fire, 2013.\u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 [book trailer<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Felton’s college choice for football will be televised live! Too much stress, as he visits colleges, looks for something meaningful in his life for those entrance essays, and tries to survive senior year.<\/p>\n

He knows he’s a super-fast football player, a sorta-okay big brother and son and grandson, but not sure about anything else. So he decides to do something with his senior year, something worthwhile – then maybe he’ll be able to figure out what college to pick.<\/p>\n

Mentoring a bullied freshman boy, visiting colleges where coaches want him to change everything about his game, trying to ignore his mom dating the dad of the girl he wants to date, running over football opponents like crazy, wishing he could ask his dead dad for advice – fall is nuts for Felton.<\/p>\n

Too bad he can’t just make wacky videos with Gus instead of worrying about that college commit date looming ahead, can’t keep his girlfriend from breaking up with him, can’t keep a friend from making terrible choices.<\/p>\n

Where should he play college football?
\nWhat’s with Heather and the peach schnapps?
\nWhy is this all so difficult?<\/p>\n

The Stupid Fast<\/em>\u00a0 guy who considers himself Nothing Special<\/em>\u00a0 off the football field has to figure things out now so future friends won’t be wearing that “I’m With Stupid” shirt in this wild conclusion to Geoff Herbach’s story of Felton Reinstein’s high school years.<\/p>\n

(One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stress! Decisions! Pressure! Felton’s senior year was never going to be a cakewalk, but knowing that his college choice will be televised live on ESPN!?!? The road trip craziness of the previous summer chronicled in Nothing Special (my no-spoiler review here) was nothing compared to this! Ask for I’m With Stupid\u00a0 at your local library […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[22,75,11,45,20,5,37,16,87,18,40,44,43,39,49,15,9,21,14,35,33,3,8],"class_list":["post-2850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-behavior","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-competition","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-divorce","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-sports","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11567,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions\/11567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}