# Chomp

**Author:** Carl Hiaasen
**Grade range:** Grades 6–8
**Age range:** 11–13
**First published:** 2012
**Page count:** 336
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780375868429`
**ISBN-10:** `0375868429`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/chomp
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him while avoiding Tuna's gun-happy father.

## Themes

- television
- reality television programs
- missing persons
- production and direction

## Where this book is assigned

### Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania)

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2013-2014 winner (6-8)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2013-2014 winner (6-8)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2013-2014 winner (6-8)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)

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