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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 greatest pizza-eating contest and he has to win it because he borrowed his mom’s credit card and accidentally spent $2000 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.