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Contributor(s): Hautman, Pete (Author)
ISBN: 1536204323     ISBN-13: 9781536204322
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
OUR PRICE:   $8.09  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2019
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Family - Siblings
- Juvenile Fiction | Disabilities & Special Needs
- Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Measure: 660
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.1" (0.55 lbs) 288 pages
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 191877
Reading Level: 4.3   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 7.0
 
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Publisher Description:
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.