{"product_id":"slider-9780763690700","title":"Slider","description":"\u003cb\u003eCompetitive eating vies with family expectations in a funny, heartfelt novel for middle-grade readers by National Book Award winner Pete Hautman.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavid 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 $2,000 on it. So he \u003ci\u003ereally \u003c\/i\u003eneeds 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePete Hautman\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of many books for young adults and adults, including the National Book Award-winning \u003ci\u003eGodless, \u003c\/i\u003e the Klaatu Diskos trilogy, and \u003ci\u003eEden West. \u003c\/i\u003ePete Hautman divides his time between Wisconsin and Minnesota.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Candlewick Press (MA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50647495999762,"sku":"9780763690700","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f1beb427-7f8b-4e67-97b2-63414c97c584.jpg?v=1734800888","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/slider-9780763690700","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}