It's anyone's guess who will actually survive "Expedition Survival".Ĭarl Hiassen has been recommended to me by another reader continuously for years, but me being a typical egocentric know-it-all man, who considers humour totally subjective, and myself a tough nut to crack, just didn't get round to seeking his work out. Search parties head out and promptly get lost themselves. 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. And Wahoo's acquired a shadow named Tuna-a girl who's sporting a shiner courtesy of her old man and needs a place to hide out. Derek Badger seems to actually believe his PR and insists on using wild animals for his stunts. But the job keeps getting more complicated. When his dad 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 dad from killing Derek Badger, the show's boneheaded star, before the shoot is over. His father is an animal wrangler, so he's grown up with all manner of gators, snakes, parrots, rats, monkeys, snappers, and more in his backyard. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here. Sure to be a hoot, er, hit with middle school mystery fans. Hiaasen's tongue is firmly in cheek as he successfully cuts his slapstick sense of humor down to kid-size. In his first novel for a younger audience, Carl Hiaasen ( Basket Case, etc.) plunges readers right into the middle of an ecological mystery, made up of endangered miniature owls, the Mother Paula's All-American Pancake House scheduled to be built over their burrows, and the owls' unlikely allies-three middle school kids determined to beat the screwed-up adult system.
Apparently, bullies do serve a greater purpose in the scope of the universe. And if he had never discovered the owls, he probably would have missed out on the adventure of a lifetime. And if he had never met Beatrice, he might never have discovered the burrowing owls living in the lot on the corner of East Oriole Avenue. And if he had never seen the running boy, he might never have met tall, tough, bully-beating Beatrice.
But if it wasn't for Dana Matherson mashing his face against the school bus window that one day, he might never have seen the tow-headed running boy.
But it's still the same old routine: table by himself at lunch, no real friends, and thick-headed bullies like Dana Matherson pushing him around. This time around it's Trace Middle School in humid Coconut Grove, Florida.
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