Chomp

Chomp

<b>The hysterical #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller from Newbery honoree Carl Hiaasen featuring gators, snakes, bats that bite, and reality show hosts gone wild!</b><br> <b> </b><br> When Wahoo Cray’s dad—a professional animal wrangler—takes a job with a reality TV show called <i>Expedition Survival!,</i> 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 <i>her</i> father and needs a place to hide out. <br><br> 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 . . .<br><br> It's anyone's guess who will <i>actually</i> survive <i>Expedition Survival</i>. . . <br>  <br><br> “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.” —<i>New York Post</i><br>  <br> “<i>Chomp </i>is a delightful laugh-out-loud sendup of the surreality of TV that will be enjoyed by readers of all ages.” —<i>Los Angeles Times</i><br>  <br> “<i>Chomp </i>shines in its humorous, subtle tweaks on pop culture. . . . The real satisfaction, however, is not so much in the book’s humor but in its truth.” —<i>Time Out Chicago Kids</i>