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WHAT A GREAT ADVENTURE READ FOR THE YOUNG ADULT.  WAHOO CRAY AND HIS DAD, AN ANIMAL WRANGLER, BECOME ENMESHED WITH THE TV STAR OF “EXPEDITION SURVIVAL”.  THEIR 12 FOOT DOCILE CROCODILE NEARLY KILLS THE TV STAR WHEN HE DECIDES TO RIDE THE CROC LIKE A BUCKING BRONCO.  MORE TROUBLES AWAIT THE TV STAR AS THEY TRAVEL INTO THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES WITH ALL MANNER OF TRULY WILD ANIMALS.  MR. CRAY LOSES ALL RESPECT FOR THE SHINING STAR AND USES HIS WRANGLING KNOW-HOW TO KEEP THE MAN’S HEAD FROM TRIPLING IN SIZE!  A VERY FUN READ!!

JACKET BLURB:

Wahoo Cray lives in a zoo. 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. The critters he can handle. His father is the unpredictable one.

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. But the job keeps getting more complicated. Derek Badger seems to actually believe his PR and 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 old man 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”. . . .

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