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Slider by Pete Hautman
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.Pete Hautman is the author of numerous works for young readers and adults, including Godless, the Klaatu Diskos trilogy, and Eden West, which won the National Book Award. Slider, his most recent middle-grade novel, received praise from Booklist for its crystalline prose, mouthwatering detail, and rip-roaring fun. Pete Hautman is a Wisconsin native who now splits his time between the states of Wisconsin and Minnesota.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780763690700 |
| ISBN 10 | 0763690708 |
| Title | Slider |
| Author | Pete Hautman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Candlewick Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 2017-09-12 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |