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Chomp, Carl Hiaasen

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Chomp

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Carl Hiaasen

In this hysterical #1? New York Times ?bestseller, one kid has to wrangle gators, snakes, bats that bite, and a reality show host gone rogue! This is? Carl Hiaasen's Florida?where the creatures are wild and the people are wilder!? ? 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.? 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 . . . It's anyone's guess who will?actually?survive?Expedition Survival. . .? ?? “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 ? “Chomp?is a delightful laugh-out-loud sendup of the surreality of TV that will be enjoyed by readers of all ages.” ? Los Angeles Times