Hoot
Random House Children's Books · Print & ebook · May 11, 2004
A Young Adult pick for readers exploring Hoot.
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- Who it’s for
- Endangered owls, pancake plans, and unruly Florida wildlife make for a playful, offbeat read.
- Themes
- Protecting endangered wildlife, Environmental activism, Pranks and mischief
- Genres
- Funny YA, Environmental YA, YA Mysteries
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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.
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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!
Wildly Wry Stakes
Endangered owls, pancake plans, and unruly Florida wildlife make for a playful, offbeat read.
Come here for
- A comic clash between a restaurant project and an owl colony
- Wild creatures and wilder people, with environmental stakes
Expect
- A sustained, playful story with a mischievous edge
- A tangle of new-kid trouble, pranks, and poisonous snakes
Where it sits
| YA Mysteries | 81% |
|---|---|
| Environmental YA | 73% |
| Funny YA | 23% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Funny YA
- YA Mysteries
- Environmental YA
- Authors
- Carl Hiaasen
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books
- Published
- May 11, 2004
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Protecting endangered wildlife · Environmental activism · Pranks and mischief
- Reading lane
- Funny YA