"Hoot"

Hiaasen, Carl. (2002). Hoot. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

I loved this book. Once I picked it up I could not sit it down for anything. This book is about a boy who moves all over the US with his parents. Finally they settle in Florida. There he makes few friends, until he sees a “barefoot kid” running by the bus. He follows him a few times and is eventually able to befriend him. The kid tells him of the plight of these tiny owls that burrow into the ground. In the process of trying to save the owls from death due to construction of the area, he befriends the boy and his sister. They manage to save the owls in the end.

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