Chomp - Carl Hiaasen

nTake a trip to Newbery Honoree Carl Hiaasen's Florida, where adventure is always in the air In this hysterical #1 New York Times bestseller, watch out for gators, snakes, bats that bite, and reality show hosts gone wild n When Wahoo Cray's dad--a professional animal wrangler--takes a job with a reality TV show called Expedition Survival , Wahoo figures he'll have to do a bit of wrangling himself to keep his father from killing Derek Badger, the show's inept and egotistical star. But the job keeps getting more complicated: Derek Badger insists on using wild animals for his stunts; and Wahoo's acquired a shadow named Tuna--a girl who's sporting a shiner courtesy of her father and needs a place to hide out. n n They've only been on location in the Everglades for a day before Derek gets bitten by a bat and goes missing in a storm.

Search parties head out and promptly get lost themselves. And then Tuna's dad shows up with a gun . .

. n n It's anyone's guess who will actually survive Expedition Survival. .

. n n Only in Florida--and in the fiction of its native son Carl Hiaasen--does a dead iguana fall from a palm tree and kill somebody. --New York Post n n Chomp is a delightful laugh-out-loud sendup of the surreality of TV that will be enjoyed by readers of all ages.

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