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.

A PARADE BEST KIDS BOOK OF ALL TIME

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 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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292 pages

Average rating: 5.95

20 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

Shahna
Jul 18, 2024
4/10 stars
I can appreciate a book about children trying to save wildlife.
It's a good lesson to teach kids.

What I don't appreciate is the fatphobia. Like every other children's novel from the early 2000's this suffers from "fat people are bad, fat people are ugly, fat people are stupid"

I'm sure the rest of his books have similar issues.

Goppfather
Dec 07, 2023
6/10 stars
Not the typical Hiaasen humor, more geared toward young adult. Not my favorite but it's a decent, happy story.

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