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	Hiaasen, Carl.  CHOMP New York : Knopf, 2012 IL 5-8, RL 5.2 ISBN  0375868429
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews	Wahoo and his father, a professional animal wrangler, live along the Everglades with an odd assortment of animals. When Derek from Expedition Survival reality show arrives, he wants to use Wahoo’s real animals for their scenes. Derek almost drowns with his real-life stunt grabbing Alice, the gigantic alligator. After his near-death experience, Derek decides to use the Everglades for his next scene. After only one day, Derek gets bitten by a bat and gets lost in a storm. Read to see who wins on the reality show – the animals or Derek. (Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award nominee, 2014)
	SUBJECTS:     Reality television programs -- Fiction.                         Television -- Production and direction -- Fiction.                         Missing persons -- Fiction.                         Wildlife refuges -- Fiction.                         Everglades (Fla.) -- Fiction.                         Florida -- Fiction.                         Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.                         Adventure fiction.

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