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.

"Alice Fleck's father is a culinary historian, and for as long as she can remember, she's been helping him recreate meals from the past--a hobby she prefers to keep secret from kids her age. But when her father's new girlfriend enters them into a cooking competition, ... Alice finds herself and her hobby thrust into the spotlight ... Alice learns that she and her father are actually contestants on Culinary Combat, a new reality TV show hosted by...

Tris tries to save his doughnut business and town of Petersville, New York, by competing on a cooking show.