Chomp - carl hiaasen

Take a trip to Newbery Honoree Carl Hiaasens Florida, where adventure is always in the air In this hysterical #1 New York Times bestseller, watch out for gators, snakes, bats that bite, and reality show hosts gone wild When Wahoo Crays dad--a professional animal wrangler--takes a job with a reality TV show called Expedition Survival , Wahoo figures hell have to do a bit of wrangling himself to keep his father from killing Derek Badger, the shows inept and egotistical star.

But the job keeps getting more complicated: Derek Badger insists on using wild animals for his stunts; and Wahoos acquired a shadow named Tuna--a girl whos sporting a shiner courtesy of her father and needs a place to hide out.

Theyve 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 Tunas dad shows up with a gun .

Its anyones guess who will actually survive Expedition 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.

-- New York Post Chomp is a delightful laugh-out-loud sendup of the surreality of TV that will be enjoyed by readers of all ages.

-- Los Angeles Times.