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Summary: A great read!
Review: This book was great! It was interesting and funny, and I really liked the way the author described the characters. They seemed like real people. I also learned a lot about burrowing owls. I never knew there was such a thing. I liked the way the kids worked to save them from the pancake house. I would recommend this book to all my friends because it was so good!
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Summary: Very good book for struggling readers
Review: As a secondary reading teacher who deals with struggling readers I have a huge challenge finding interesting books for them to read. This book was recommended to me by a reading specialist and she was right on about this book. My students loved it! For many, it was the first book they ever read! We had a great time making predictions throughout the story as Roy Eberhardt, Beatrice Leep, Curly, and Officer Delinko are all looking for something. The plot twists and weaves but never loses the reader. The closer each character gets to finding what they are looking for, the more streamlined the plot gets. As it turns out they are all looking for the same thing and as they do, little hints are dropped to the reader along the way--hightening the reader's interest. What are they looking for? You will have to read this book to find out! Strongly recommended to any struggling reader or to any teacher dealing with struggling readers.
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Summary: its a hoot
Review: This story was really good, and I love how the story was about never giving in to help something!
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Summary: Wry, Quirky Literature
Review: I have to say that this is one of the best books I have read in awhile. I couldn't help but think of the book Holes as I read this one. Especially when it all comes together.
This is a wonderfully quirky story about a quick witted middle schooler named Roy Ebherhardt. Roy, the classic new kid in town, has his life changed one day on the school bus. That fateful day as Roy is being bullyed on the bus he glimpses a strange barefooted boy running beside the bus.
From that day forward Roy is swept into a slowly unraveling mystery with these elements: a runaway nature lover, a brutish female soccer player, a pancake house, a mullet catcher and those owls! (There are no owls...) :-)
This tale is expertly rendered... it comes to fruition slowly and deliberately... but oh what a pay-off!
Hiaasen uses much humor and wry saracasm in his story telling. I had quite a few out loud laughs and that is a great thing. This book is highly entertaining and engrossing.
I highly recommend it!
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Summary: Fun Summer Reading
Review: I just read "Hoot" because my little brother had it lying around as part of his summer reading list. I actually read three of his summer books just because they all sucked me in within the first few pages. I am always disturbed when I hear people, adults and children alike, state that they hate to read. I wonder how anybody can hate to read when there are books like "Hoot". I immediately fell in love with Roy, the small, bullied kid who has such a great outlook on life. Maybe if more children read about a kid who was being pushed around but saw that he could endure and still be a productive individual, more people would come out in this world and feel as though they can contribute and are worth something to society. I thank Carl Hiaasen for a very entertaining and thought provoking read.
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Summary: Vandalism Rewarded!
Review: Maybe I'm out of the loop here, but since when is it appropriate to teach children that breaking the law, in this case vandalism, is proper behavior. Maybe that's what's wrong with our society today. It seems, in speaking with other librarians and booksellers, that I'm the only one who had a problem with this book in that respect. What happened to the old adage: Two wrongs don't make a right???
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: As a fan of Hiaasen's adult fiction and an environmentalist, I couldn't wait to read this book with my kids. What a disappointment. Sure, there's a story there, about a boy who stands up against the illegal destruction of a protected species - but the author seems to have replaced the outrageous humor of his other stories with tons of explanation and repetition, as if he's making sure kids might understand. Try reading "Notes from a Liar and Her Dog", or "The House of the Scorpion", or "Holes", instead.
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Summary: Owls
Review: This book is about a boy named Roy going to a new school. Roy usally never looks out the window of the bus. One day on the way to school a bully threw Roy against the window and choked him. Roy saw out the window, a boy around his age was running. He was running the opposite way of the bus. Another day Roy followed the boy. They became friends. At a private property there was owls that were known as burrowing owls. The owls lived underound. At that property they were going to build a pancake house. So the owls homes were going to be destroyed. The book is about how Roy faces the bullies and how him and the running boy save the burrowing owls.
I rated this book 5 stars. The reason I did was, because it was very interesting. Once I started it, I could not put it down. I was anxious to get to the end to see what would happen next. I think Carl Hiaasen did a very good job on this book. I highly recommend this book to any young reader. Marshall Fundemantal
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Summary: This Did Not Deserve The Wonderful Award It Got
Review: I'm sorry, Mr. Hiaasen, but I did not enjoy this book. I just wanted it to end! It was OK, with some good parts. However, this would not be on my "Best Kid's Books" list by any means. The main character's name is Roy. He has just moved. He is not happy about it. "Disney world is an armpit," he says, "compared to Montana." But finally something starts to get interesting. He spots a barefooted boy running, running fast. This leads to a mystery- a mystery about some big dogs, pancakes, slippery fish, a girl from school, some sneaky lies, a bully with a fear of alligators, and some tiny owls in huge trouble.
Not a bad book, but I would not recommend it.
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Summary: Nat's Neat Review
Review: Hoot is a humorous and witty story about a young boy named Roy who moves to Florida and believes that nothing exciting ever happens there besides getting beat up by the middle school bullies. Roy finds himself helping his new friends vandalize a restaurant property for the sake of saving the burrowing owls living under ground there, which would soon be plowed when the building started. He is a brave boy who becomes happy to make friends and for being of help to the environment. Hoot is a perfect book for anyone looking for a silly story that has a hysterical plot, and will leave them laughing out loud.
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