Chomp by Carl Hiaasen

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Bibliographic Details

• Author: Carl Hiaasen
• Title: Chomp
• Publisher: ‎ Alfred A. Knopf; First Edition (March 27, 2012)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 290 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0375868429
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0375868429
• Reading age: ‎ 9 – 11 years, from customers
• Lexile measure: ‎ 800L
• Grade level: ‎ 5 – 6
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.10 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 5.88 x 1.03 x 8.5 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good
• Cover Condition: Good ( Small tear on spine / missing dust jacket)
• Edition: First Edition

Synopsis:

The hysterical #1 New York Times bestseller from Newbery honoree Carl Hiaasen featuring gators, snakes, bats that bite, and reality show hosts gone wild!

 

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. . . 

 

About the Author:

Carl Hiaasen was born and raised in Florida, where he still lives. He is a prize-winning journalist with a regular column in the Miami Herald and many articles in varied magazines. He started writing crime fiction in the early 1980s and has recently branched out into children's books; he has also had several works of non-fiction published.