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SliderCompetitive eating vies with family expectations in a funny, heartfelt novel for middle grade readers by National Book Award winner Pete Hautman. David can eat an entire sixteen inch pepperoni pizza in four minutes and thirty six seconds. Not bad. But he knows he can do better. In fact, he'll have to do better: he's going to compete in the Super Pigorino Bowl, the world's greatest pizza eating contest, and he has to win it, because he borrowed his

Competitive eating vies with family expectations in a funny, heartfelt novel for middle-grade readers by National Book Award winner Pete Hautman.

David can eat an entire sixteen-inch pepperoni pizza in four minutes and thirty-six seconds. Not bad. But he knows he can do better. In fact, he'll have to do better: he's going to compete in the Super Pigorino Bowl, the world's greatest pizza-eating contest, and he has to win it, because he borrowed his mom's credit card and accidentally spent $2,000 on it. So he really needs that prize money. Like, yesterday. As if training to be a competitive eater weren't enough, he's also got to keep an eye on his little brother, Mal (who, if the family believed in labels, would be labeled autistic, but they don't, so they just label him Mal). And don't even get started on the new weirdness going on between his two best friends, Cyn and HeyMan. Master talent Pete Hautman has cooked up a rich narrative shot through with equal parts humor and tenderness, and the result is a middle-grade novel too delicious to put down.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 09/12/2017
ISBN: 9780763690700
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.00d

Review Citations: School Library Journal 07/01/2017 pg. 73
Booklist 07/01/2017 pg. 61
Publishers Weekly 07/24/2017
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 09/01/2017
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2017
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2017 pg. 95
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2018 - Superior,Well Above Average

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 191877 / Slider
Reading Level: 4.3 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 7