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1 online resource |
| Summary |
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 put $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 whipped 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. |
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Text Difficulty 3 |
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660 Lexile. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Somerville : Candlewick Press, 2017. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1257 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB). |
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Competitive eating -- Fiction.
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Contests -- Fiction.
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Brothers -- Fiction.
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Autism -- Fiction.
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| Local Subject |
REBECCA CAUDILL AWARD [2020 NOMINEE]
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| Genre |
Young adult fiction.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9780763690700 |
| ISBN |
9780763697655 (electronic bk) |
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