Hoot
Published: 2019
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Hilarious, touching and thought-provoking, Hoot is a modern classic, now celebrating its fifteenth anniversary. Winner of the Newbery Honor award and a New York Times bestseller, Carl Hiaasen's first novel celebrates the natural world with his trademark wit and warmth.
Roy Eberhardt never wanted to move to Florida. In his opinion, Disney World is an armpit.
Roy's family moves around a lot so he's used to the new-kid drill - he's also used to bullies like Dana Matherson. And anyway, it's because of Dana that Roy gets to see the mysterious running boy who runs away from the school bus and who has no books, no backpack and, most bizarrely, no shoes.
Sensing a mystery, Roy starts to trail the mystery runner - a chase that will introduce him to many weird Floridian creatures: potty-trained alligators, cute burrowing owls, a fake-fart champion, a shoeless eco-warrior, a sinister pancake PR man, new friends and some snakes with sparkly tails. As the plot thickens, Roy and his friends realise it's up to them to save the endangered owls from the evil Mother Paula's pancake company who are planning to build a new restaurant on their home . . .
This book has been graded for interest at 9-11 years.
This book was published 2019 by Pan Macmillan .
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Scholastic Readers: Level 2
Animals in fiction
Birds in fiction
Alligators in fiction
Crocodiles in fiction
Nature in fiction
Bullying in fiction
Adventures in fiction
This book is in the following series:
Scholastic Reader
Scholastic Reader is a 5 level reading scheme taking readers from their first ABCs through to chapters.
This book has been nominated for the following awards:
Young Reader's Choice Award
This book was recognised in the Grades 4-6 category by the Young Reader's Choice Award.
Iowa Teen Award
This book was recognised by the Iowa Teen Award.
Pat Conroy Southern Book Award
This book was recognised by the Pat Conroy Southern Book Award.
Black-Eyed Susan Award
This book was recognised in the Grades 6-9 category by the Black-Eyed Susan Award.
Agatha Award
This book was recognised by the Agatha Award. The Agatha Awards, named for Agatha Christie, are literary awards for mystery and crime writers who write in the cozy mystery subgenre (i.e. closed setting, no sex or violence, amateur detective) and are awarded annually at the Malice Domestic Conference.
Newbery Award
This book was recognised by the Newbery Award. The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
Book Sense Book of the Year Award
This book was recognised in the Illustrated category by the Book Sense Book of the Year Award.
Young Hoosier Book Award
This book was recognised in the Middle Grade category by the Young Hoosier Book Award.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award
This book was recognised by the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award.
Massachusetts Book Award
This book was recognised by the Massachusetts Book Award.
Nutmeg Book Award
This book was recognised in the Teen category by the Nutmeg Book Award.
Golden Sower Award
This book was recognised in the YA category by the Golden Sower Award.
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award
This book was recognised by the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award.
Sunshine State Young Reader's Award
This book was recognised in the Grades 6-8 category by the Sunshine State Young Reader's Award.
Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award
This book was recognised in the Grades 6-8 category by the Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award.
Texas Lone Star
This book was recognised by the Texas Lone Star.
Golden Archer Award
This book was recognised in the Middle School / Junior High category by the Golden Archer Award.
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award
This book was recognised in the Grades 6-8 category by the Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award.
Booksellers' Choice Award
This book was recognised in the Middle Readers category by the Booksellers' Choice Award.
