Hoot

Hoot is about a boy named Roy Eberhardt, who along with two other friends, want to protect the miniature owls that live at the site where a popular restaurant wants to set up shop. Roy is sort of an outcast. He doesn't have many friends and is the new kid in town. This story takes place in Coconut Grove, Florida. He soon has a bully pushing him around, Dana Matherson, but because of an encounter on a bus with Dana, that is how the story begins to unfold. Roy, along with Beatrice and her step brother Mullet, soon realize that they have to save the miniature owls , which are endangered, that are living in the construction area of the future pancake house. The three of them do their best to reveal that the construction company does know that owls are burrowing on the construction site. In the end, the dishonesty of the construction company is exposed. Mullet is sent to a detention center, but runs away and Roy does not know where he is. This is an excellent book to read in a 4th or 5th grade class. You can use it to integrate science into your lessons.



Hiaasen, Carl (2002). Hoot. New York: Knopf Books.