Chomp

Description

When Wahoo Cray＊s dad〞a professional animal wrangler〞takes a job with a reality TV show calledExpeditionSurvival!,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 ofherfather 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 willactuallysurviveExpedition 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.§ 〞

※Chompis a delightful laugh-out-loud sendup of the surreality of TV that will be enjoyed by readers of all ages.§ 〞