Roy(New kid) moved to florida and has been having some trouble with this bully at school Dana Matherson(Mean kid). When Roy smacks Dana in the nose he runs of the bus and sees another kid running and runs after him.He finds out the kid goes by Mullet Fingers(cause he can catch a mullet). Beatrice(Mullet Fingers stepsister) teams up with Roy to help Mullet Fingers save the endangered owls. So officer Delinko(dumb police officer)and Carl(buliding manger) wont bulid a Mother Paula's Pancake House(restaurant)over the owls home. Will they safe the owls or will there be another dumb pancake place in town. That is for me to know and you to find out when you read this really good book. I liked this book cause it made me laugh alot and everyone would love it. I gave it four stars cause it sometimes got boring talking about owls.

Friends are forever. Everyone says these three little words at some point in their life. Most of the time people will say these words to their best friend when their kids, but a lot of friends end up not being friends forever. Different reasons keep people from being friends forever, and one of those reasons is because people move and drift apart. Roy Eberhardt knows how it feels to move and leave his friends, but he also knows how it feels to make new ones.

Roy Eberhardt's family just moved to a small town in Florida from Montana, due to Mr. Eberhardt's job. Roy doesn't like Florida because it is nothing like Montana. Roy also has trouble making friends, for some reason everyone wants to pick on him. That is until he meets Beatrice Leep and her stepbrother, Mullet Fingers. Mullet Fingers seems like a troublemaker at first, until Roy finds out why he makes all the trouble. So Roy and Mullet Fingers set out to save something that know one believes can be saved.

It is through Roy and Mullet Fingers experiences that Roy makes new friends, discovers new interests, and learns to care for less advantaged beings. Roy's experiences give him a new hope for a better life in Florida.

Sometimes the best decisions you can make you make without even thinking about making them. Carl Hiaasen gives us a chance to think about what we could do for others to make their lives easier and to make our lives less boring and more fulfilled. Hiaasen also shows us how to deal with anything life wants to throw us.

This is a great book for anyone to read. This book shows people the good and bad in this world, and it also shows us what we can do to make this world better. Plus, there is excitement, worry, and surprises in this book that will make you want to read page after page. HOOT is a great book that is written for anyone of any age to read.

A great story is a story that pulls you in from the beginning, uses interesting and descriptive language, and has characters that you fall in love with. Hoot is all of these, and more! I rated it a 4 because of the aspect that it won a newbery medal and I believe it shouldn't have, for the way the characters talk abruptly after one another sometimes and the way some descriptions are weak. Otherwise, I would rate it a SOLID, SOLID, SOLID 5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!