David can eat an entire 16-inch pepperoni pizza in 4 minutes and 36 seconds. Not bad. But he knows he can do better. In fact, he’ll have to do better if he’s going to compete in the Super Pigorino Bowl, the world’s greatest pizza-eating contest. And he really needs to win it…like, yesterday.But 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). And don’t even get him started on the new weirdness going on between his two best friends, Cyn and HeyMan.
Competitive eating vies with family expectations in this funny-but-tender novel for middle grade readers by National Book Award winner Pete Hautman.