Slider / Pete Hautman.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First editionDescription: 278 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0763690708
- 9780763690700
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Children's Book
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Fiction | Hautman Pete | Available | 33111008959518 | ||||
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Hautman Pete | Available | 33111008817658 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Hoping to win a cash prize in a pizza eating contest after racking up a tab on his mother's credit card, David must juggle his competitive eating training with the responsibility of looking after his autistic younger brother.