ALA Notable Children's Book, 2003Arizona Young Readers Award, 2005Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award, 2005Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award, 2005Iowa Teen Book Award, 2005Kentucky Bluegrass Master List, 2004Maine Student Book Master List, 2003Massachusetts Children's Book Award, 2004Minnesota Maud Heart Lovelace Award, 2005Newbery Honor Book, 2003Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice Award, 2003Texas Lone Star Reading List, 2003This 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!
