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Chomp [electronic resource]. Carl Hiaasen.

Hiaasen, Carl. (Author). Van Der Beek, James. (Added Author).

Summary:

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 . . .    “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   “ Chomp shines in its humorous, subtle tweaks on pop culture. . . . The real satisfaction, however, is not so much in the book’s humor but in its truth.” — Time Out Chicago Kids

Electronic resources

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780307916433
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (5 audio files) : digital
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: New York : Listening Library, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Unabridged.
Participant or Performer Note:
Narrator: James Van Der Beek.
Target Audience Note:
Text Difficulty 3 - Text Difficulty 4
MG/Middle grades (4th-8th)
5.2 ATOS Level
800 Lexile.
System Details Note:
Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser.
Subject:
Juvenile Fiction.
Humor (Fiction).
Juvenile Literature.
Mystery.