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Hoot

By Carl Hiaasen

By Carl Hiaasen

By Carl Hiaasen

By Carl Hiaasen

By Carl Hiaasen

By Carl Hiaasen

By Carl Hiaasen

By Carl Hiaasen

By Carl Hiaasen
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By Carl Hiaasen
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By Carl Hiaasen
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By Carl Hiaasen
Read by Chad Lowe

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Paperback $8.99

Dec 27, 2005 | ISBN 9780440419396 | Middle Grade (10 and up)

Paperback $8.99

May 11, 2004 | ISBN 9780375829161 | Middle Grade (10 and up)

Hardcover $17.99

Sep 10, 2002 | ISBN 9780375821813 | Young Adult

Ebook $7.99

Sep 10, 2002 | ISBN 9780375890277 | Middle Grade (10 and up)

CD $32.00

Oct 12, 2004 | 390 Minutes | Middle Grade (10 and up)

Audiobook Download $12.95

Sep 10, 2002 | 385 Minutes | Middle Grade (10 and up)

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    About 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.

    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!

    About 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.

    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!

    About 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.

    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!

    About 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.

    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!

    About 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.

    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!

    About 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.

    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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    About Carl Hiaasen

    CARL HIAASEN was born and raised in Florida. He is the author of fourteen previous novels, including the best sellers Bad Monkey, Lucky You, Nature Girl, Razor Girl, Sick Puppy, Skinny Dip, and Star Island, as well as six best-selling children’s books, Hoot, Flush, Scat,… More about Carl Hiaasen

    About Carl Hiaasen

    CARL HIAASEN was born and raised in Florida. He is the author of fourteen previous novels, including the best sellers Bad Monkey, Lucky You, Nature Girl, Razor Girl, Sick Puppy, Skinny Dip, and Star Island, as well as six best-selling children’s books, Hoot, Flush, Scat,… More about Carl Hiaasen

    About Carl Hiaasen

    CARL HIAASEN was born and raised in Florida. He is the author of fourteen previous novels, including the best sellers Bad Monkey, Lucky You, Nature Girl, Razor Girl, Sick Puppy, Skinny Dip, and Star Island, as well as six best-selling children’s books, Hoot, Flush, Scat,… More about Carl Hiaasen

    About Carl Hiaasen

    CARL HIAASEN was born and raised in Florida. He is the author of fourteen previous novels, including the best sellers Bad Monkey, Lucky You, Nature Girl, Razor Girl, Sick Puppy, Skinny Dip, and Star Island, as well as six best-selling children’s books, Hoot, Flush, Scat,… More about Carl Hiaasen

    About Carl Hiaasen

    CARL HIAASEN was born and raised in Florida. He is the author of fourteen previous novels, including the best sellers Bad Monkey, Lucky You, Nature Girl, Razor Girl, Sick Puppy, Skinny Dip, and Star Island, as well as six best-selling children’s books, Hoot, Flush, Scat,… More about Carl Hiaasen

    About Carl Hiaasen

    CARL HIAASEN was born and raised in Florida. He is the author of fourteen previous novels, including the best sellers Bad Monkey, Lucky You, Nature Girl, Razor Girl, Sick Puppy, Skinny Dip, and Star Island, as well as six best-selling children’s books, Hoot, Flush, Scat,… More about Carl Hiaasen

    Product Details

    Category: Children’s Middle Grade Mystery & Detective Books

    Paperback | $8.99
    Published by Yearling
    Dec 27, 2005 | 320 Pages | 5-3/16 x 7-5/8 | Middle Grade (10 and up) | ISBN 9780440419396

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Mystery & Suspense | Children’s Middle Grade Books

    Paperback | $8.99
    Published by Ember
    May 11, 2004 | 320 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | Middle Grade (10 and up) | ISBN 9780375829161

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Fiction | Teen & Young Adult Mystery & Suspense

    Hardcover | $17.99
    Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers
    Sep 10, 2002 | 304 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | Young Adult | ISBN 9780375821813

    Category: Children’s Middle Grade Mystery & Detective Books

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers
    Sep 10, 2002 | 312 Pages | Middle Grade (10 and up) | ISBN 9780375890277

    Category: Children’s Middle Grade Mystery & Detective Books | Audiobooks

    CD | $32.00
    Published by Listening Library
    Oct 12, 2004 | 390 Minutes | Middle Grade (10 and up) | ISBN 9780307206978

    Category: Children’s Middle Grade Mystery & Detective Books | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $12.95
    Published by Listening Library
    Sep 10, 2002 | 385 Minutes | Middle Grade (10 and up) | ISBN 9780807209240

    Praise

    “It seems unlikely that the master of noir-tinged, surrealistic black humor would write a novel for young readers. And yet, there has always been something delightfully juvenile about Hiaasen’s imagination; beneath the bent cynicism lurks a distinctly 12-year-old cackle. In this thoroughly engaging tale of how middle schooler Roy Eberhardt, new kid in Coconut Cove, learns to love South Florida, Hiaasen lets his inner kid run rampant, both the subversive side that loves to see grown-ups make fools of themselves and the righteously indignant side, appalled at the mess being made of our planet. The story is full of offbeat humor, buffoonish yet charming supporting characters, and genuinely touching scenes of children enjoying the wildness of nature. He deserves a warm welcome into children’s publishing.”—Booklist

    “A wonderful tour-de-force.”—The Boston Globe

    “A rollicking, righteous story.”—The Miami Herald

    “You don’t have to be a young adult to enjoy it.”—The New York Times Book Review

    “Yes, it is a hoot.”—The Washington Post Book World

    Awards

    ALA Best Books for Young Adults WINNER 2003

    ALA Notable Children’s Book WINNER 2003

    Connecticut Nutmeg Children’s Book Award WINNER 2006

    Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award WINNER 2005

    Iowa Teen Book Award WINNER 2005

    Kentucky Bluegrass Master List WINNER 2004

    Maine Student Book Master List WINNER 2003

    Minnesota Maud Heart Lovelace Award WINNER 2005

    Newbery Honor Book WINNER 2003

    Pennsylvania Keystone State Reading Association Book Award WINNER 2003

    Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice Award WINNER 2003

    Texas Lone Star Reading List WINNER 2003

    Arizona Young Readers Award NOMINEE 2005

    Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award NOMINEE 2005

    Florida Sunshine State Book Award NOMINEE 2003

    Hawaii Nene Award NOMINEE 2005

    Massachusetts Children’s Book Award FINALIST 2004

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