Chomp

· Sold by Knopf Books for Young Readers
3.9
155 reviews
eBook
304
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About this eBook

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

Ratings and reviews

3.9
155 reviews
Kilian Gonzalez
14 August 2013
It was a good book could have made it longer other than that it was exciting and kept u of the edge of your seat wanting to read more they should make this book a series.
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Ull's Arrow
13 July 2016
I had to do this as an assignment for the summer when I'm supposed to be RELAXING! Ugh... Just makes me want to jump off my house
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luna
11 January 2014
IS ONE OF THE BEST WRITERS IN DUH WORLD!!!! oMG I Have this book at home you should totally read it. Mr. dork Badgar, Er, Derek, gets chomped by Alice, then a few snakes, and a snapping turtle also I think, and thousands of mosquitoes. Will Derek Badger Survive after all this?
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About the author

CARL HIAASEN was born and raised in Florida. He writes a column for the Miami Herald and is the author of many bestselling novels including Bad Monkey, Razor Girl, and Squeeze Me.

His books for younger readers include the Newbery Honor winner Hoot, as well as Flush, Scat, Squirm, and Chomp. Skink—No Surrender was Hiaasen's first book for teens and features one of his most iconic characters, the reclusive ex-governor of Florida now known as Skink.

You can read more about Hiaasen's work at carlhiaasen.com.

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