Take 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 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. -- Los Angeles Times. -- New York Post Chomp is a delightful laugh-out-loud sendup of the surreality of TV that will be enjoyed by readers of all ages.
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. . .
It\'s anyone\'s guess who will actually survive Expedition Survival. . .
And then Tuna\'s dad shows up with a gun .
Search parties head out and promptly get lost themselves.
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.
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.
Take 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 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