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A New York Times BestsellerA Newbery Honor Award Winning AuthorWhen Wahoo Cray's dad -- a professional animal wrangler -- 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 father from killing Derek Badger, the show's inept and egotistical star. But the job keeps getting more complicated: Derek Badger 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 father 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... Age Range: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5-6 | Lexile Measure: 800L