u003cbu003eu003cbu003eIn this hysterical #1 u003ciu003eNew York Timesu003c/iu003e bestseller, one kid has to wrangle gators, snakes, bats that bite, and a reality show host gone rogue! This is u003c/bu003eCarl Hiaasen's Florida—where the creatures are wild and the people are wilder! u003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e 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. u003cbru003eu003cbru003e 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 . . .u003cbru003eu003cbru003e It's anyone's guess who will actually survive Expedition Survival. . . u003cbru003e u003cbru003e “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.” —u003ciu003eNew York Postu003c/iu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e “Chomp is a delightful laugh-out-loud sendup of the surreality of TV that will be enjoyed by readers of all ages.” —u003ciu003eLos Angeles Timesu003c/iu003e
