Hoot

This Newbery Honor winner is a modern classic full of wild adventure and hilarious chaos. Hoot introduces a new kid, his troublesome bully, burrowing owls, a renegade eco-avenger, and some extremely poisonous snakes.

Everyone loves Mother Paula’s pancakes—everyone, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered owls living on the site of her new restaurant. Can the awkward new kid and his mischievous friend save the owls by pranking the pancake people out of town? Or is it already too late for these feathered residents?

Welcome to Carl Hiaasen’s Florida, where the wildlife is clever, the people are wilder, and the stakes are as high as the laughs.