Hoot
This Newbery Honor winner and #1 New York Times bestseller is a beloved modern classic. Hoot features a new kid and his new bully, alligators, some burrowing owls, a renegade eco-avenger, and several extremely poisonous snakes.
A PARADE BEST KIDS BOOK OF ALL TIME
Everybody loves Mother Paula's pancakes. Everybody, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered owls that live on the building site of the new restaurant. Can the awkward new kid and his feral friend prank the pancake people out of town? Or is the owls' fate cemented in pancake batter?
Welcome to Carl Hiaasen's Florida—where the creatures are wild and the people are wilder!
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Awards
Kentucky Bluegrass Master List - WINNER 2004
Iowa Teen Book Award - NOMINEE 2005
Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award - WINNER 2005
Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award - NOMINEE 2005
Arizona Young Readers Award - NOMINEE 2005
Newbery Honor Book - WINNER 2003
ALA Notable Children's Book - WINNER 2003
Texas Lone Star Reading List - WINNER 2003
Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice Award - WINNER 2003
ALA Best Books for Young Adults - WINNER 2003