By Simran Jayasinghe
Hoot! Screech! Screech! That is what I think about when I think about the book Hoot. The book Hoot is written by Carl Hiassen. This book is about a boy called Roy Eberhardt and his adventures with his two friends, Mullet Fingers and Beatrice Leep.
It all starts when Roy sees a boy with no shoes, socks, backpack or books running down the sidewalk on a school day. Roy decides to try and figure out who this mysterious boy is, and why he didn’t have shoes. Roy wants to give the boy some shoes he got as a birthday present with hopes that the boy will not run around barefoot. Roy also wants to know why the boy was running away from the school bus. Roy thinks that surely a normal kid would not run away from a school bus.
The first part of this book is about Roy getting used to living in Florida (Roy recently moved to Florida from Montana), Roy trying to find out who the running boy is, and how Roy gets bullied every day on the way to school. The second part of this book is about Roy, Mullet Fingers, and Beatrice trying to save a group of burrowing owls that have made their homes at a construction site. The construction crew is going to bull doze the owls’ burrows and habitat to build the shop, and Roy and his friends have an adventure trying to stop them.
Do the owls get buried? Find out by reading the book!
I really liked how Roy and his friends were adventurous and courageous. The book was exciting and I had a great time reading it.