Chomp - Carl Hiaasen

Chomp

By Carl Hiaasen

  • Release Date: 2012-03-27
  • Genre: Nature in Kids Fiction
4.5 Score: 4.5 (From 713 Ratings)

Description

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

Reviews

  • um sorry but i hate this book

    1
    By Melissa Perry
    not trying to be rude but i absoloutely hate this book, i was super unprepared for the wierd style of writing and and strange plot line. i had to read this for school and as a huge reader, i was excited. but basically it starts off boring, there's something about vampires and then there's a bunch of random people shooting each other in separate boats. i love creative stories, so maybe i misjudged or misunderstood, but it was way too wierd and i would NOT recommend it to anyone. no offense, but that's just my opinion. def on my top five worst books i've ever read and i'm never reading it again,
  • Carl Hiaasen is the Best!

    5
    By DenverTwin
    I’ve read all his adult books. This is the second kids book that I’ve read, but not the last!
  • read this!

    5
    By 17.heath.soccer
    I just started reading this book and i love it! he is a great author and i love all of his books.
  • So good!

    5
    By fishi boi 🐟
    I boutffhr (bought) this at book store and it is best book ever (glades). A short summary: Wahoo and his dad, Mickey, and Wahoos to-be gf (: Tuna embark on a journey to the Everglades with Derek badger (a star) for big bucks But Tunas dad (drunk gunman) does as well... FIND OUT WHAT HEPPENS NEXT!!!
  • Great book

    5
    By bdnd xndnd
    It is the best book ever it’s got action, struggle, and movie filmings. It's about wahoo a animal wranglers son whos dad is named mickey’s son who's pretty in to the family business. But they don't make as much money has Bill Gates but the can get by. But one day they get a letter saying that they have to pay their mortgage. So the mom goes off to china to make some money and mickey and wahoo start to work for a tv show called “Expedition Survival” and they get paid big bucks but everything kinda gets crazy after that.
  • Awesome book, but

    4
    By tfarrell22
    The book was slow in the beginning but as you got deeper into it, it got good.
  • ᑕOᗰᗷO

    5
    By Hillbilly85
    TᕼIᔕ ᗷOOK Iᔕ ᗩᗰᗩᘔIᑎG ❗ IT Iᔕ ᗩᗰ ᗩᗪᐯEᑎTᑌᖇE ᗩᗷOᑌT ᗩ ᖴᗩTᕼEᖇ ᗩ ᗩᑎᗪ ᔕOᑎ ᗩᑎᗪ TᕼEIᖇ ᒍOIᑎEᖇY TᕼᖇOᑌGᕼ TᕼE EᐯEᖇGᒪᗩᗪEᔕ. TᕼE ᗩᑌTᕼOᖇ ᗯᖇITEᔕ ᗩᗰᗩᘔIᑎG ᗷOOKᔕ. I ᒪOᐯEᗪ IT
  • Pretty good😁

    4
    By EmilyMRivera9803
    I had to do a book report on the over the summer and i thought its was gunna b really gay. But it turned out to be a really good book!!😊😂
  • Comp

    4
    By Romp romp romp romp romp
    I love this book
  • Amazing

    1
    By PiSQR
    I read this in school every day!I finished it at about a little over half the school year with additional time over the summer!I loved It!!I was saying to my friends,An alligators gonna eat him!and they were all listening all excited,then a killers gonna shoot him!More excitement!I love this book!!

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