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Hoot
- Narrated by: Chad Lowe
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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Hoot
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Publisher's Summary
ALA Notable Children's Book, 2003
Arizona Young Readers Award, 2005
Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award, 2005
Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award, 2005
Iowa Teen Book Award, 2005
Kentucky Bluegrass Master List, 2004
Maine Student Book Master List, 2003
Massachusetts Children's Book Award, 2004
Minnesota Maud Heart Lovelace Award, 2005
Newbery Honor Book, 2003
Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice Award, 2003
Texas Lone Star Reading List, 2003
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 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!
What the critics say
“It seems unlikely that the master of noir-tinged, surrealistic black humor would write a novel for young readers. And yet, there has always been something delightfully juvenile about Hiaasen’s imagination; beneath the bent cynicism lurks a distinctly 12-year-old cackle. In this thoroughly engaging tale of how middle schooler Roy Eberhardt, new kid in Coconut Cove, learns to love South Florida, Hiaasen lets his inner kid run rampant, both the subversive side that loves to see grown-ups make fools of themselves and the righteously indignant side, appalled at the mess being made of our planet. The story is full of offbeat humor, buffoonish yet charming supporting characters, and genuinely touching scenes of children enjoying the wildness of nature. He deserves a warm welcome into children’s publishing.”—Booklist
“A wonderful tour-de-force.”—The Boston Globe
“A rollicking, righteous story.”—The Miami Herald