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Meet Felton Reinstein. He's just met puberty. Felton is growing so fast that he is outgrowing his clothes at an alarming rate. He has sprouted massive amounts of body hair, started to smell bad, and he just figured out that he can run, stupid fast. Stupid fast is faster than fast. Felton can run so fast that people are starting to notice him. Coaches are recruiting him for the track team, baseball and football teams. Girls are starting to pay attention too. His rapid growth has started to freak
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This has been praised as a good YA novel for boys. It's a fairly humorous story about a boy who finds himself rapidly acquiring a jock's stature one summer, falling in love, and having to deal with being the child of a father who committed suicide when he was much younger, and a mother who now seems to be spiralling into depression.
I wasn't blown away by it. It could have had something to do with the annoying mistakes (of the 'your'/'you're' variety), or perhaps Felton's teenage humour. Nonethel ...more
I wasn't blown away by it. It could have had something to do with the annoying mistakes (of the 'your'/'you're' variety), or perhaps Felton's teenage humour. Nonethel ...more
