Slider, Pete Hautman
Slider, Pete Hautman
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Slider

Author: Pete Hautman

Narrator: Scott Lange

Unabridged: 4 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 09/12/2017


Synopsis

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.

About Pete Hautman

Pete Hautman is the author of many books for adults and young people, including the National Book Award–winning Godless, the Klaatu Diskos trilogy, and Eden West, which Booklist called “thought-provoking and quietly captivating.” Pete Hautman divides his time between Wisconsin and Minnesota.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sherry on May 08, 2019

Just a good book--so funny I laughed out loud. David is the middle child of the family and thinks he is only good at competitive eating...he uses his mother's credit card to buy a fake half hot dog thinking it is a relic from the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating championship. A mistake finds him owing his mo......more

Goodreads review by Annie on March 09, 2018

Slider is about a kid named David, who is training to be a competitive eater. He accidentally spent $2,000 on his moms credit card, and he has not told her yet. So he is entering a pizza eating competition, to earn some money. At the same time he has to take care of his bother, Mal, who is autistic.......more

Goodreads review by Brenda on November 25, 2017

David, our winning narrator, is the middle and ignored child in a family that is barely hanging on. He feels he's in the shadow of his "perfect" sister, who is away at college and relied on a bit too much to handle his younger brother, who is on the autism spectrum. The only thing he is good at is e......more