Chomp by Carl Hiaasen

Chomp

Carl Hiaasen

Random House Children's Books · Paperback · March 12, 2013

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!

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Who it’s for
A Florida animal-wrangling mishap turns reality television into creature-filled comic chaos.
Themes
Reality TV satire, Wild animals and survival
Pacing
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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!

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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

Wild, Wry Survival

A Florida animal-wrangling mishap turns reality television into creature-filled comic chaos.

Come here for

  • A wry sendup of survival TV and its spectacularly inept star
  • Wild animals and distinctly unruly Florida energy

Expect

  • Gators, snakes, bats, and human mayhem
  • Peril with a mischievous streak

Where it sits

Funny Stories62%
Survival Stories53%
Alligators & Crocodiles47%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Funny Stories
  • Mysteries & Detective Stories
  • Environment & Conservation
Authors
Carl Hiaasen
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Published
March 12, 2013
Format
Paperback
Theme
Reality TV satire · Wild animals and survival
Reading lane
Funny Stories