Hoot- Carl Hiaasen

The book Hoot is a non fiction book. I chose this book because I heard that this book was good book about Miami, Florida and the Everglades. I really did like this book. It really caught me in the begining with its misterious parts and it kinda left you hanging at first but later on the book explained everything. I kinda like books that do that, especially this one.

This book is about a three group of kids who try and save Burow Owls from the building of Mother Paulas Pancake House. It starts out with the new kid (Roy) moving from the high mountains of Montana, who spots a kid running barefoot (Mullet Finger), which seemed like he was running from something or toward something. Roy really needed to find out why he was running. Roy runs into a blonde girl named Betreise who tells Roy to stay away from the running boy.

Eventually, Roy figures out why he was running. Later on in the story Mullet Fingers, Roy, and Betriese notice that there are owls at the construction site of Mother Paulas. Roy and the gang try and do anything they can to stop the building of Mother Paulas from spray painting the patrol car black, putting aligators in the Porta Potties, stealing the seats off the bullzdozer and much much more. In the end the three of them stop the building of Mother Paulas and turns the construction site into a zoo for the owls.

The title of the book really matches the story. The book is about owls so the name should most certainly be.

If i had to ask the author three questions they would have to be...

1. Why did you pick the act of saving owls when you could've chosen agriculture of another animal from Miami?

2. What made you think of the story line for this book?

3. Did you grow up in Miami, that made you think of putting the setting in Miami, Florida?