Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award
2016 · Grades 4-8 · Nominee
About This Book
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". . . .
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". . . .
Awards
Georgia Children's Book Award
2015 · Children's Book (Grades 4 - 8) · Nominee
Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award
2015 · Grades 6-8 · Nominee
Young Reader's Choice Award
2015 · Junior/Grades 4-6 · Nominee
Alabama Camellia Award
2014 · Grades 4-5 · Nominee
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award
2014 · Children's · Nominee
Kentucky Bluegrass Award
2014 · Grades 6-8 · Nominee
Mark Twain Readers Award
2014 · Grades 4-6 · Nominee
North Carolina Children's Book Award
2014 · Junior Book · Nominee
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award
2014 · Grades 6-8 · Winner
Sunshine State Young Reader's Award
2014 · Grades 6-8 · Nominee
Black-Eyed Susan Award
2013 · Grades 6-9 · Nominee
Buckeye Children's Book Award
2013 · Grades 3-5 · Nominee
Florida Book Award
2013 · Young Adult · Silver Medal Winner
Massachusetts Children's Book Award
2013 · Children's Book · Nominee
Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize
2013 · Children's · Finalist
SIBA Book Award
2013 · Children's · Finalist
South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award
2013 · Junior Book · Nominee
Cybils
2012 · Middle Grade Fiction · Finalist
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