Chomp
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. . .
The steady, resourceful son of a Florida animal wrangler, pulled into keeping a vain reality-TV survivalist from getting himself killed in the Everglades.
Tuna's abusive, alcoholic father, who tracks her down in the Everglades and confronts the group with a gun.
Wahoo's father, a professional animal wrangler recovering from a concussion, hired to keep a reckless TV host safe on location.
A classmate who shows up with a black eye and nowhere else to go, tagging along on the shoot to escape her father at home.
The vain, incompetent star of the reality show Expedition Survival!, whose insistence on using real wild animals for stunts sets the plot in motion.
