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By: Pete Hautman

Narrated by: Scott Lange

Competitive eating vies with family expectations in a funny, heartfelt novel for middle-grade audiences 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.

©2017 Pete Hautman, original book published by Candlewick Press. (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Short and sweet!

The narrator or guy reading the book has a perfect voice for the story. There was only like 100 ratings on this book compared to thousands on others so I was iffy at first to get an audible copy but believe me it’s a fun story for any middle schooler. This book is literally the definition of don’t judge a book by it’s cover!

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fun for the whole family!

we thoroughly enjoyed this book! I'm 34 and my son is 9.. we both lsughed!

Cute

Fun to listen together with my children and see the world from their point a view again.

Best book in the world

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