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 … 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
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Chomp is another delightfully zany Hiaasen tale. Wahoo Cray’s dad is a professional animal wrestler who takes a job with a reality TV show, Wahoo is working to keep his father from killing the show’s egotistical star, Derek Badger. On day one in the Everglades Derek gets bitten by a bat and disappears in a storm. Then, the search parties get lost. …
it was very good
One should always have several books in their list that leave them rolling on the floor with laughter. A Carl Hiaasen book should be at least one of them. Any of his. Just get one to try out and see… any one of them. He is a master craftsman.
Chomp is a YA novel by Carl Hiaasen, and I have to say, I adored this book. It follows Wahoo Cray, a young man (maybe around 13) whose father is an animal wrangler. That is, they keep all sorts of wildlife in their backyard in a small town on the outskirts of Miami, and whenever a TV or movie company wants to film a commercial or movie with …
Hiaasen is terrific.
He knows how to pick up on Florida topics and then run with them.
The “children’s” stories he publishes offer great entertainment will some solid environmental knowledge.
Entertainment and education.
What more could we ask?
We are a huge fan of this author at my house. This is our third of his YA books that we’ve read together and my son (9) was always begging me to read just one more chapter. When we finished with this one, he was anxious to start Squirm. He can’t get enough and neither can I.
the best book ever
As always, Carl H. has such a funny and inventive style that even though this is a YA book, this 60 year old lady loved it!
A book written for kids but adults who care about our environment will like it too.
A story about a bizarre bunch of characters with barely any sense between them, which makes for a witty and unpredictable tussle and tumble through the wilderness. Lucky those kids are around to make sure the train doesn’t go right off the rails.
You have to love Hiassen. His stories are witty and entertaining and his characters are quirky and multi-dimensional. Like Elmore Leonard, who also wrote books similar in sub-genre, Hiassen writes books that you can’t put down.
i think that this book is a book that makes you just want to keep reading and it is super funny and has awesome charecters that are both funny and awesome! i definentaly reccomend it! you should read it.