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Pete Hautman (author)
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...
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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 g
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ISBN:
9780763690700
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Audience: Middle School Format: Hardcover/Library A sixteen-inch pizza, fresh from the oven, is a thing of beauty. - first sentence So, that opening line tells you a great deal about this book, but not the heart of it. David loves competitive eating, both watching it as a sport and doing it hi...
Has a good hook, likeable characters with flaws, not too long, attractive cover. Perfectly serviceable middle grade novel.