Contact Info:
Lives in: St. Peter, MN
Website: geoffherbach.com
Email: [email protected]
Author of:
Children’s Fiction, Picture Books, Young Adult Fiction, and Adult Fiction
Age Group: 6-18, adult
Books:
Stupid Fast (Sourcebooks, 2011) https://www.startribune.com/stupid-fast-is-brilliant-fun/123370863/Nothing Special (Sourcebooks, 2012) https://www.slj.com/?reviewDetail=nothing-specialI’m With Stupid (Sourcebooks, 2013) https://www.slj.com/?authorName=HERBACH%2C%20Geoff
Fat Boy vs. The Cheerleaders (Sourcebooks, 2014) https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4022-9141-8
Anything You Want (Sourcebooks, 2016) http://www.teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2016/05/17179/
Strange Times, The Ghost in the Girl (To The Stars, 2017) With Tom DeLonge of Blink 182
Hair-pocalypse (Capstone, 2017) https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/geoff-herbach/hair-pocalypse/
Hooper (Katherine Tegen, HarperCollins 2018) https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/geoff-herbach/hooper/
Cracking the Bell (Katherine Tegen, HarperCollins 2019) https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/geoff-herbach/cracking-the-bell/
For Adults: The Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg (Crown/Three Rivers, 2008)
Book Awards:
• 2021 YALSA, American Library Association, Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers List for Cracking the Bell
• 2020 Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla Award for Children’s Literature from Wisconsin Library Association for Cracking the Bell.
• 2020-2021 Iowa Teen Reads List for Hooper
• 2020 Kentucky Bluegrass Award for YA Finalist for Cracking the Bell
• 2020 Minnesota Book Award for YA Readers Finalist for Cracking the Bell
• 2019-2020 Illinois Abraham Lincoln Award Finalist for Hooper
• 2019-2020 Nebraska Golden Sower Award Finalist for Hooper
• 2019 Minnesota Book Award for YA Readers Finalist for Hooper
• 2019 Outstanding Artistic Achievement in Children’s Lit Honorable Mention, Wisconsin LA for Hooper
• 2019 Bank Street Best Books for Children List for Hooper
• 2018-2019 Illinois Abraham Lincoln Award Finalist for Fat Boy vs. The Cheerleaders
• 2018 Children’s Choice, International Literacy Associate/CBC for Hair-pocalypse
• 2015 Best YA List, American Library Association for Fat Boy vs. The Cheerleaders
• 2015 Young Readers’ Choice, International Literacy Association for Fat Boy vs. The Cheerleaders
• 2014-2015 Illinois Abraham Lincoln Award Finalist for Stupid Fast
• 2014 Eliot Rosewater Indiana Teen Readers’ List for Stupid Fast
• 2014 Outstanding Book by a Wisconsin Author Honorable Mention for I’m With Stupid
• 2013 Top Ten Sports Books, Booklist for I’m With Stupid
• 2013 Junior Library Guild Selection for I’m With Stupid
• 2013 Global Read Aloud Selection for Stupid Fast
• 2013 Minnesota Book Award for Young Readers Winner for Nothing Special
• 2013 Florida Teen Reads Finalist for Stupid Fast
• 2012 Cybils Award For Best Young Adult Book, Fiction for Stupid Fast
• 2012 Penn Young Readers Award Finalist for Stupid Fast
• 2012 Outstanding Book by a Wisconsin Author for Stupid Fast
• 2012 Junior Library Guild Selection for Nothing Special
• 2011 Best YA List, American Library Association for Stupid Fast
• 2011 Best in Children’s Books, American Booksellers Association for Stupid Fast
• 2011 Junior Library Guild Selection for Stupid Fast