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Title: Slider

Author: Pete Hautman

Narrator: Scott Lange

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-12-17

Publisher: Candlewick on Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Competitive eating vies with family expectations in a funny, heartfelt novel for middle-grade audiences 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.

Members Reviews:

Great realistic fiction for middle grades

Solid choice for the 2018-2019 Texas Bluebonnet book list! Professional reviews placed this book slightly above the fourth graders that make up one half of my libraryâs population in a very conservative district so a preview read was required before purchasing and promoting. I am happy to report that the bookâs content was not only engaging, but perfectly appropriate for 4th graders, despite the fact that the main character and his friends will be entering high school at summerâs end. David is a young man facing life filled with circumstances universal to many: a heavy case of middle kid âinvisibleness,â changing dynamics between long time friends, family drama, a special needs brother, and a major mistake that needs a fast and expensive fix. All this couched in the world of competing eating! Pete Hautman creates completely likeable characters who struggle to solve their problems in a way that touches the heart and leaves the reader satisfied. Not every situation has a fairy tale solution but that will make the ending all the more appealing to my readers who already understand that life is never perfect but who need the hope that everything will be OK anyway. I highly recommend this book to readers 4th grade and up but recognize that the length may be off-putting to some of the elementary aged students.

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I received this book from #kidlitexchange to read in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. Slider by Pete Haultman published by Candlewick Press. David is the middle child of three with an older sister and a younger brother. His older sister, Bridgette, is a perfectionist, in college with great grades and a boring boyfriend. His younger brother, Mal, is diagnosed in the autism spectrum. Mal doesn't speak and will only eat cheerios and potato chips. After a huge mistake with Moms credit card David discovers he can enter eating contests to make money to fix his mistake. His parents have other plans for his summer but agree that if he helps take care of Mal while Mom goes to work for the summer he can train for the pizza eating contest at the fair. While mom is gone and David is training Mal is teaching him how to read Mal's cues. In the end the family all learns a few new things about one another. Pulling together for family. An amazing read.