Chomp

by Carl Hiaasen
Hennepin County Library audiobook 5 discs
read by James Van Der Beek
genre: YA humor

Louie and I enjoyed this on the way to and from the lake this past weekend! Hiaasen is such a wonderful author (though I like his adolescent fiction much better than his adult fiction).

Chomp is the story of animal wrangler Mickey Cray and his son Wahoo (named for a wrestler, not the fish). They take a job with a nature channel's reality show starring Derek Badger as a survivalist. Wahoo's classmate Tuna is on the run from her abusive father and joins up with the Crays. Down in the Everglades, chaos erupts and hilarity ensues. Very fun story!