Hoot

Posted by Eleanor in DogEared on November 12, 2008

BOOK NAME: Hoot
AUTHOR: Carl Hiaasen
 

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I just finished the book Hoot. It’s by Carl Hiaasen. It is one of the best books I have read this year. It’s about a middle-school kid named Roy. He is the “new kid” at school, so the bully, Dana, picks on him all the time. One day on the bus, Dana digs his fingers into Roy’s temples and makes him look out of the window. Roy sees a tan, blond-haired kid running past the bus stop who is not wearing any shoes. Roy wonders why he is not getting on the school bus.
 
When Roy sees the same kid the next day, he runs off the bus to chase him. While he’s trying to catch the kid, Roy knocks down a girl named Beatrice who is the running kid’s stepsister. The running kid has found out that there is going to be a pancake house in an empty lot where there are owl dens. He has many different ways to keep the owls from being bulldozed. The pancake company says that there are no owls and that they are wild chickens, how bizarre! Though those “wild chickens” definitely look like owls.
 
So Roy gets involved with the running kid, whose nickname is “Mullet Fingers” and his owl plan. “Mullet Fingers” plan is to try and save the owls. He even gets poisonous snakes involved! If you want to know how, read the story. “Mullet Fingers” is called that because he can catch a mullet (a type of very fast fish) with just his bare hands. Roy also has to deal with Dana and he finds out things about Beatrice’s life. Dana tries to strangle Roy, punch him and kick him, but things turn out good for Roy (Read the book!!!). Beatrice’s stepmom is really mean to Beatrice. She yells at her all the time and doesn’t care for her. “Mullet Fingers” doesn’t even live with his mom; He ran away and never came back.  
    
I loved this book! I liked how Roy actually cared about the owls instead of just doing nothing. I also liked how the author didn’t just pay attention to the owls. He made chapters just about Roy, too. I would recommend this book. I think anybody would like it because it’s not just about a girl or just about a guy. It’s about a girl and a guy, and owls. 

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Comments

  1. spock9
    November 16, 2008, 9:22 pm

    I can’t remember if I read the book or not, but I think I did. It was good. :)

  2. Piarte_Gurl97
    November 17, 2008, 9:21 pm

    I LOVE THIS BOOK I READ IT OVER THE WEEK END LAST WEEK!!!!!!

  3. sammeiamrock
    November 22, 2008, 2:43 pm

    I read it and I loved it. I couldn’t put it down. The movie was pretty good too.

  4. aznsnohuskie
    November 23, 2008, 8:38 pm

    You are SOOOOO awesome! This is my most FAVORITE BOOK EVEY IN MY WHOLE LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  5. bamboo1219
    November 26, 2008, 7:54 pm

    Is this book kind of like the book Flush?? Because I loved that book!

  6. violet
    November 30, 2008, 8:25 pm

    i like it but it is not the best book i ever read.

  7. spock9
    December 21, 2008, 2:28 pm

    I’m reading this book again and I have a slight feeling of dejavu. Dejavu means you’ve done this before. Dejave means you’ve done this before. ;)

  8. horzelova
    January 5, 2009, 1:34 pm

    Guess what i luuuuuuv that book!!! i also love horses!

  9. musemagfan13
    January 8, 2009, 4:33 pm

    This was the greatest book! I liked how it was kind of environmentalist, but didn’t really focus on that point. This book was definitely better than the movie. Hey, spock9: your comment was pretty funny.

  10. sk8tergirl94
    January 9, 2009, 2:20 pm

    i read the book but to me it was to long and need to get right to the piont.i just could not get into it

  11. Bookworm13
    January 13, 2009, 5:34 pm

    I read a little bit of it but I just couldn’t get interested.

  12. krazyperson9668
    January 24, 2009, 9:08 pm

    I read this book a few years ago and at the time I thought of it as the BEST book ever!!! But now that I’ve read even more books I can barely remember it.

  13. prettypurpleLOL
    January 24, 2009, 10:26 pm

    omigosh! I have read HOOT book & it is SUCH a good book! If you like the book then check out FLUSH. It is by the same author & is halarious!

  14. Deryn13
    April 13, 2009, 3:15 pm

    I’m reading Scat by the same author. I’m only on the 5th page but it seems like a good book.

  15. DarkWolfGirl
    May 28, 2009, 9:00 pm

    This book is a magnificent adventure about the power of one child and friendship. It test how far anyone would go to save a dying species, and how good of friendships we should have.

  16. book worm maniac
    June 19, 2009, 10:15 pm

    For what age group is this?

  17. wecanmakeitgreen
    June 28, 2009, 10:53 am

    This a good book! I reccomend this author. I think this is a book with depth and thought:(

  18. Bookhead
    July 2, 2009, 10:59 am

    the owls seem cute in my imagination

  19. kenzeroony
    July 4, 2009, 12:40 pm

    I’ve heard good things about this book and I’m going to read it as soon as I can get my hands on it!

  20. ckd1998
    July 25, 2009, 7:40 pm

    read it and LOVED IT!!!!! my teacher actually had to tell me repeatedly to put it down.:):) great book, Carl Hiaasen is definitly one of my favorite authors!

  21. Parry Hotter
    August 5, 2009, 4:37 pm

    Yes, the reviews on the first page of the book are right, the one review that I liked was “It Truly is a Hoot”. That review was right. The book is great! Hoot is all about saving animals and in this case it’s saving owls. (I know it’s kind of oblivious) Anyway it’s a truly amazing book- read it today!

  22. 13thReality.HarryPotter.MysteriousBenedictSociety.Girl4
    August 20, 2009, 9:12 pm

    This is a great book!

  23. DolphinDreamz
    September 9, 2009, 6:53 pm

    This book was pretty good.It had some bad words in it though.Ages 11+.

  24. musemagfan13
    October 21, 2009, 5:40 pm

    Ok, just pointing out that my last comment sounded rather unintelligent: a hah hah dat was pretty fahnny!

    Also, spock9: you can’t remember if you’ve read it, but you thought it was good??

    The movie rocks. The guy who was Roy in the movie will be Percy Jackson in the Percy Jackson movie coming out in February 2010.

  25. musemagfan13
    October 21, 2009, 5:40 pm

    Ok, just pointing out that my last comment sounded rather unintelligent: a hah hah dat was pretty fahnny!

    Also, spock9: you can’t remember if you’ve read it, but you thought it was good??

    The movie rocks. The guy who was Roy in the movie will be Percy Jackson in the Percy Jackson movie coming out in February 2010.

  26. DanielRadcliffe4586
    November 5, 2009, 6:36 pm

    Hoot 4ever!!!!!!!

  27. hermione10
    December 19, 2009, 11:54 am

    13thReality.Harry Potter.Mysterious Benedict Society.Girl4, Parry Hotter,danielradcliffe4586, awesome user names! This book is great & Eleanor is posting some purty good books!I know,musemagfan13! u guys are right.Again, I must give my compliments to Spock9. You rock!

  28. haley909
    January 7, 2010, 1:18 am

    i love this book, i even read it 2wice! my teacher had to talk to me after school cause i was reading in class all the time! she said “i now you like your book which is great but u need to pay attention!”haha lol!
    HOOT IS 4EVR!! read it! read it! read it!

  29. 2whitie
    January 23, 2010, 9:41 pm

    Hey haley909, apperently we are a lot like each other when it comes to getting teachers mad us about reading. My teachers had brought it up at conferences:(. Dad got really mad.

  30. #1bookfan
    February 28, 2010, 7:16 pm

    after I finished this book I thought it was the BEST BOOK EVER!!!!!!!!!!!

    :) :) :)

  31. cool12
    June 8, 2010, 4:32 pm

    i am reading the book and so far it is excilent

  32. cool12
    June 8, 2010, 4:37 pm

    ” i am reading the book hoot and so far it is the best book i ever read in my life. this book has inspired me to , remember to love the nature

  33. cool12
    June 8, 2010, 4:40 pm

    This book is the best book ever. HOOT!HOOT!

  34. cool12
    June 8, 2010, 4:46 pm

    ” hoot is amazing this is the fifth time i finished the book.”

  35. cool12
    June 8, 2010, 6:33 pm

    ”Hoot is an ispireing to read.”MY FREIND RICHARD SAID I AM THE BOOK NERD OF THE CLASS.” ;]

  36. cool12
    June 8, 2010, 6:42 pm

    ”I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH.”

  37. cool12
    June 9, 2010, 6:53 pm

    ”it seems unlikely that the master of noir-tinged,surrealistic black humor would write a novel for young readears.And,yet,there has always been somthing delightfully juvenile about Hiaasens imaginnation;beneath the bent cynicism lurks a distinctly 12-year-old cackle.”

  38. waterlily106
    July 23, 2010, 12:50 pm

    HOOT is a really great book! I love it!

  39. sembalion
    March 15, 2011, 3:35 pm

    hey!!saw the last part of the movie,but not any thing else.you see,i was at my cozin’s,,,and i dont have a tv.acttuly,i do,but we dont use it.now,off my life and on to the book.i have NEVER got a book that the blogerrs reviewd,i only know about the books they talk about because i have read them before,and i only know some. now,again,off my life and on to the book.But,i have to say,i WILL try my best to get the book.(P.S: i am new,so i need some people who go to the libary as much as possible,becaues,when i like a review,i need to know the full book,even if i cant get it.)

    Queston:Who goes to the libary almost every day,can stay up reading a book from 10:00 pm,to 8:00 pm,but hasent been o the libary often??
    _________________________________________________________Raise hand

  40. jamieshae
    February 6, 2012, 10:22 pm

    very good book almost everything was on the movie HOOT

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