Hoot

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Summary: Hoot
Review: The book I read was Hoot by Carl Hiaasen. This book was 297 pages long and was a realistic fiction book. Some of the other books he's written are Sick Puppy and Basket Case which are more adult books. This book was fairly good but had some slow parts.

Roy just moved to Florida from Montana and is always beat up by Dana Matherson on the bus to school and back. One day on the way to school he sees a kid run past a bus stop on the way to school with no shoes on. The next day the kid runs by again at the same stop and Roy gets suspicious. That night Roy plans to follow the kid wherever he is going. So on the way to school when he sees the boy he darts to the door of the bus bumping into Beatrice Leep (The captain of the school soccer team) on the way out. Roy chases the boy through a golf course and into some woods were he finds a camp made. He goes up to one of the bags and dumps whatever is in it out and finds five copper mouth snakes. A voice from be hind calls move slowly backwards and do not look at the snakes. Roy does as told and is all of a sudden blindfolded. The kid drags him out of the woods and says "I am going to take of the blind fold and you are never to return here". When the blind fold was taken of and Roy had turned around the boy was gone.Waking over the golf course he is suddenly hit by a golf ball in the head and knocked out. The next day at school Beatrice Leep comes up to him and grabs him by the neck and asks him what he running after when he bumped into her.
He answers "I was running after a boy".
"You know who the kid was; that was my step-brother that's who. Never chase him again".

I liked how the author named the characters because I feel they really fit into the situation. Also I like what the goal of the characters was and I rarely find that in books I read. The whole thing about saving nature is what gets me because I love the outdoors animals, plants ext. that's why I like the goal of saving the owls.

There are some funny parts in the book too. One of them was when the runaway boy put the alligators in the portable toilets. Also when he pulled out the stakes that marked were water pipes and electrical wires were. The kid also spray painted the police car while the police man was asleep.

This book was fairly good. The goal of the character was good because it's about saving nature. Also this book had some funny parts in it to. This book is not a mystery book. I would only recommend this to people who like the outdoors, wildlife and the whole thing about saving them.


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Summary: HOOT
Review: Hoot was written by Carl Haisen. The book was 297 pages including the epilogue. Hoot was exciting and mysterious. It also had plot twists along with a touch of humor.
Roy (the main character) is a thirteen year old boy who has moved from place to place in his life. He is now living in Florida. Roy loves his parents and they were very understanding about his situation about moving all of the time. It all began on the bus in his second week of school when as usual the bully in the school was picking on him and the other kids. Dana shoved his face into the window and he saw a boy that was running. In the mean time the construction sight had be being vandalized. He chased after the boy the next time but couldn't keep up with him because the boy was extremely fast; Roy thought that he was fast enough to be an Olympic sprinter. Later that day a girl at school named Beatrice pinned him to the wall at school and screamed into his face,
"Don't ever follow him again or else. Mined your own business"
Roy later found out that the boy that was running and ditching school was the one who was committing the crimes at the construction site. He didn't know the connections between the running boy at school and Beatrice, but he did know that he had to find out what was going on and why.
Characters in the book Hoot were believable and funny. They developed a strong personality and it felt like even though you weren't in the story you knew the characters. Such as the running boy would stay stubborn and always, every time, had a plan.
The setting was in Florida. I enjoyed how descriptive the author was and how he described all of the places he had lived and what Florida was like. I also loved how the author also made you want to read onto the next chapter.
Parts of the story unfolded as you read and I liked how he only gave little by little so it made you keep on wondering. I would give this book a nine out of ten; this is a must-read book of the year.


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Summary: Everyone else has already given a hoot, so I'll give a cheer
Review: I generally am not one to be coaxed or fall prey to child or young adult comedy, only upon the supposition that they are not funny. I mean not to offend anyone, but children's comedies are just tedious.

Hoot is not.

In hoot, the drive of the story is not the actual story, but the characters and the narratives. Hoot flaunts a story of minimal interests, but uses that as a fulcrum to launch a circus of cheap but funny jokes. Having read Hoot, you will not be rolling on the floor with laughter, but instead basking in their ironic glow. Hoot is not a fantastic piece of literature, but a darn fun book to read.

The course of the book is not slow and "pointless", as I have heard, but fast, funny, flashy, and f-f-f- oh, whatever. Read Hoot because you're tired of serious books, not because you're prospecting for influential, lyrical, proseful books. Hoot meets neither of the requirements, but is still a genuinely good read.

The book is entirely appropriate and within comprehensive context, and should(or could) be read by anyone within the general ages of 11-18.

So give a cheer, and read hoot!

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Summary: AWSM BOOK
Review: This is a great book about a boy named Roy Eberhardt who sees a strange running boy outside a window while a school bully was 'attacking' him. He follows this boy and...well you have to read it to find out, but Im telling you, this is , like, the best book I've EVVVEEERRRR read!! BUY IT!!

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Summary: Funny, Hilarious, laugh-out-load, strange book about a kid..
Review: What a great way to introduce your child to the world of non-absolute ethics. When are the laws to be followed, and when do we listen to our hearts to know what to do? Hiassen brings his love for all things Florida and his off-beat characters into a perfectly acceptable and palatable young person's format.

Bravo!