| Chomp Contributor(s): Hiaasen, Carl (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375868275 ISBN-13: 9780375868276 Publisher: Ember OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Performing Arts - Television & Radio - Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - General - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2011024920 |
| Lexile Measure: 800 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.50 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Florida |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 150641 Reading Level: 5.2 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 9.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. . . "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 |