I'm Glad my son gave me a Hoot!

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	• Hoot Carl Hiaasen Yearling, 2006 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 484 reviews view larger image
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I'm Glad my son gave me a Hoot!

The reviews are numerous on this tale, but I'll add my brief thoughts.

My 12 year old son read the novel first and he thoroughly enjoyed the novel. Then he asked me to read it. I have to say at first I was skeptical, but I value Carl Hiaasen commitment to the environmental efforts in Florida. Development along our coastal shores has often been allowed to flourish without restraints, allowing degradation of our already fragile ecology.
Hiaasen in his own small way is trying to preserve that wonderful state of Florida for future generations of people and of course the owl. So, to honor my son's request and Hiaasen's nature role, I read it over the course of the next two days.
Overall, I thought the novel was an excellent read, of course not on an adult level but it still kept my interest as I followed Roy, the boy from Montana as he discovers the vast beauty of Florida and also the invasion of those nasty developers. No need at this point to recap the story again. It's a super book for young adults and worthy of your attention.

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What a "Hoot!"

Roy Ebearheart is the "new kid" in town. He just moved from Montana to Florida. His frist school day he's already got two bullies on his case. On the school bus that morning he saw a bare foot boy running. When Roy was going to find the running boy one day, he went by the construction site for another Mother Paulas to be comming to Cocnut Cove and he saw a owl about nine inches long. At the opening of Mothers Paulas Roy, Beatrice, the running boy, and some other kids speak up for the owls somthing happens.
There are alot of settings in this book like, Roys house, School, construction site, and Jo Jo's ice cream truck.

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Save the owls!!!

This book is about a boy named Roy Eberhart that moved to Coconut Cove, Florida from Montana. The first day of school Roy had to ride the school bus while on the school bus he is called "cowgirl" by Daina Matherson! Daina is a bully and everone is terrified of him except one person which is Beatrise Leap. And actually he is afraid of her! When Daina is smashing Roy's head into the bus window he sees this boy darting beside the school bus with no shoes on his dirty little feet! The second day Roy sees the same boy running again! So Roy gets off the next stop...... When he is trieing to get through the kids that are getting on the bus he runs into Beatrise the meanest girl in the whole school! He acadently bumps into her, "watch it cowgirl!" She mumbles in a harsh low voice. Once he gets off the bus Roy taked off to chase down the bare foot boy. The boy runns through a golf course near by..... "CLUNCK" Roy gets hit in the head by a golf ball!!!!

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Hoot is great by Kyle Lee

It was a warm sunny day in Cocoanut Cove,FL. Mother Paula's All American Pancake House was having a groundclearing ceremony. Roy(main caracter) knew somthing most other people did not. The only other people that knew were the builders of Mother Paula's All American Pancake House and Roy's friends, Beatrice and Mulletfingers. They all knew there were Burrowing Owls on the property that Mother Paula's Pancake House was going to build on. Roy and his friends thought that it was wrong to bury the owls with the bulldozers, so they made a plan to stop Mother Paula's. At the ground breaking ceremony, Roy spoke up and said, "What about the owls in those burrows?" The manager's reply was, "What owls?" although he knew they were there. Roy pointed at one of the owl burrows. "Them are vacant," said the manager. "No they ain't," said Roy. He held up a digital camera and showed two pictures that he thought were owls. One was a finger and one was a dirty foot. Roy felt defeated and went home. The very next morniing, before school, he looked in his father's newspaper, and there was an article titled, "Mother Paula's Manager Strangles Reporter." The manager did not go to jail, but he was forced to take anger management classes. There would be no Mother Paula's in Cocoanut Cove, and the lot was used as a preserve for the owls.

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An Overview of Hoot

An interesting novel,Hoot,is the ultimate wildlife story. The onset occurs when young Roy Eberhardt moves to Coconut Cove, Florida, from Montana. Roy is used to being the new student due to the fact his family has lived in ten different places. One day while being tormented on the schoolbus, Roy notices an unusual boy galloping over the hedges at a swift speed. After some investigating is performed, Roy learns that the mysterious minor is involved in a local vandalism on the site of a Mother Paulas Pancake House.
Roy goes on to assist the renegade after he learns about eight inch owls that have made their home on the lot. Thanks to persistance by Roy,Mullet Fingers(as the boy is nicknamed), and the sister of Mullet Fingers(Beatrice Leep)end the project and save the tiny owls who continue to stay in their true home.

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