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Reviewed by: Mary Lehmer - Freeport Community Library, Freeport, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: November 11, 2017

Review

This story is about a young boy David that can eat a ton of stuff- and all at once. For example he can eat 20 small burgers in about 3 minutes. The thing is, David just does it for fun until he accidentally uses his mom's credit (which she doesn't know he did) to buy something that cost way more than he thought it would, and now his only hope of paying her back is to enter an eating contest and use the winnings from it to pay her back. This book is filled with humor. David's "skill" of eating loads of food all at once is crazy, but super funny, too. Readers will definitively find themselves feeling sorry for David about the credit card issue and wanting to hide it from his mom. One of the wonderful parts of this book is how David, throughout the story and with everything going on, helps out with his autistic brother Mal. The responsibility David is given to take care of him by his parents is big and lets you see what that it might be like for a sibling to be put in that position. You might not want to enter an eating contest after reading this, but you'll love reading about it. Cream

Overall Book Score: excellent