Hoot (novel)

Hoot
Cover of Hoot
AuthorCarl Hiaasen
LanguageEnglish
GenreRealistic Fiction
Published2002 Alfred A. Knopf
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Pages292
ISBN0-330-41529-8
OCLC53393228

Hoot is a 2002 children's mystery/suspense novel by Carl Hiaasen. The story takes place in Florida, where new arrival Roy makes two oddball friends and a bad enemy. Roy joins an effort to stop construction of a pancake house which would destroy a colony of burrowing owls who live on the site. The book won a Newbery Honor award in 2003.[1]

  1. ^ "2003 Newbery Medal and Honor Books". Association for Library Service to Children. Retrieved 15 January 2011.