Chomp

Wahoo Cray's father is a professional animal wrangler, and his latest job is on a reality TV show called Expedition Survival. Wahoo expects to spend the shoot keeping his dad from killing Derek Badger, the show's inept, egotistical star.

The work gets harder fast. Derek insists on using wild animals in his stunts. Wahoo also picks up a shadow named Tuna, a girl with a black eye from her own father, who needs somewhere to hide.

The crew has been on location in the Everglades for only a day when a bat bites Derek and he vanishes in a storm. Search parties go out to find him and quickly lose their own way.

Then Tuna's father turns up carrying a gun. This is Carl Hiaasen's Florida, a comic adventure for younger readers with gators, snakes and biting bats, where nobody can say who will come out of the swamp in one piece.