num_pages: 295
description: 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!
language: English
title: Hoot
titlecomplete: Hoot
characters: Roy Eberhardt, Mullet Fingers, Beatrice Leep
genres: Fiction, Animals, Mystery, Environment, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Humor, Childrens, Realistic Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 105260
places: Florida, The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Agatha Award
category: Best Childrens Young Adult, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award
category: Grades 6-8, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Rhode Island Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers