This Newbery Honor winner and #1 New York Times bestseller is a beloved modern classic. Hoot features a new kid and his new bully, alligators, some burrowing owls, a renegade eco-avenger, and several extremely poisonous snakes.Everybody loves Mother Paula’s pancakes. Everybody, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered owls that live on the building site of the new restaurant. Can the … the new restaurant. Can the awkward new kid and his feral friend prank the pancake people out of town? Or is the owls’ fate cemented in pancake batter?
Welcome to Carl Hiaasen’s Florida—where the creatures are wild and the people are wilder!
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Big fan of Hiaasen’s other books. This is the first YA novel of his I have read and I really liked it. He managed to get the clever dialog and interesting situations of his other books without the strong language or “hard to explain to a young reader” passages. I think all ages can enjoy this !
You have to love Hiassen. His stories are witty and entertaining and his characters are quirky and multi-dimensional. Like Elmore Leonard, who also wrote books similar in sub-genre, Hiassen writes books that you can’t put down.
Big fan of Hiaasen’s other books but I loved this one more because it has amazing characters and amazing parts. I loved how it would go from Roy and Beatrice to Officer Delinko. I can’t wait to watch the movie!
Roy is the new kid in school. He and his family has moved to Coconut Cove, Florida from Montana. His bus rides to school are fraught with dread because of a bully named Dana. He has also managed to offend a tall girl named Beatrice. You don’t want to offend Beatrice.
He does have a friend named Garrett, who is pretty funny, but no help …
this is such a great junior fiction book
Even though written for YR, adults will enjoy it.
Anyone who is on the side of Florida’s wild places is someone I appreciate.
An excellent book, made into a movie starring Brie Larson and Jimmy Buffett. A great read for the whole family!
It was horrible and no one should ever be cursed on having to read this book because of their English teacher. The plot was odd and crazy and stupid. Who chases a fricking running boy who has no shoes like, bruh. Also, who gives some random stranger whom you have followed shoes? This is such a stupid book and I absolutely hated it.
This is one of my favorite books to recommend to boys in grades 5-8. Hiaasen has a knack for quirky characters and witty dialogue while hitting environmental issues. I like that it offers more of the outdoors than most children see these days. It’s a good read for all ages, but kids NEED to read it.
It was very entertaining and is perfect for animal activists
Hoot was gifted to me by a friend who shares an appreciation for nature and humane coexistence with wildlife. At the time, the only thing I knew of Carl Hiaasen was that he wrote crime fiction — which comes through in the level of detail he provides in the adults’ interactions with one another (particularly between Officer Delinko and Curly). …
This book was written for children – it’s about a young man, somewhat of an outsider in the community he recently moved to, and how he started a movement to protect an endangered species.
It’s quite readable for an adult – it’s just missing a bit of the Hiassen ribald humor that is found in his adult novels.
Should be an entertaining book for early to mid teens.
Didn’t realize this was a book for kids. Read it anyway and it was very good.
Though written as a teen novel, I loved it and I’m 70. Wonderful story and hopefully inspirational to our youth at a time when such actions are becoming ever more essential to the future of us all.
I lIoved this book, interesting plot and characters.
Since I’ve lived in ft Myers FL before it was awesome to recognize places and truths
You really can’t ask for a better kid’s book! One of my favorites growing up and still one of my favorites today!!
I am just know reading this book for school.so far it’s really good but it has nothing to do with birds at the time.im kin dove getting confused.ima keep reading because it’s really intresting and you just wonder what is going to happen next.