Hoot is about a kid named Roy who has just moved to Florida from Montana. In his new school, he is picked on by Dana Matherson, but Roy is the only kid in the history of Trace Middle School who fights back. One day, when Dana is squishing Roy's face against the bus window, Roy sees a strange kid. The kid was running fast with no shoes, as if he was going to the bus stop, except he had no backpack and no books. Roy decides to investigate and soon finds himself, together with the strange boy and his even stranger sister, fighting to save some cute little burrowing owls from the wrath of bulldozers. Their adventure includes killer dogs, pancakes, the police, alligators, cottonmouths, a kind of highly poisonous snake, and two new good friends.
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I bumped into your blog while looking for discussion questions for Eager by Helen Fox. I teach in a class for gifted kids and we're thinking aout reading that book. I'm assuming you are writing the reviews. How old are you? Are you homeschooled? Email the answers to me at nbosch@aol.com or you can post them here and I'll check back.
You can see my students blog at http://areallydifferentplace.org
Thank you for reading my blog!
I go to Heatherwood Elementary and I am 9 years old. I'll be in 4th grade next year. I don't write my blogs, I tell them to my mom and my mom types them. I'm starting a new blog called "What I think." I have other blogs like "The Adventures and Misadventures of a 2nd grader", and "The Adventures and Misadventures of a 7-year-old" about a trip to Mexico.
I want to learn to type faster so that I can write my own blogs.
What school do you teach?
I'm going to look through your blog.
My son (now 9) struggled with this book and gave up part way through, could you offer any really good bits that I could use to tempt him to pick up the book again?
Thanks
Andrew
hey - love to see people who love books talk about them...
what did you think of the hiaasen book? It was hard to tell if you particularly liked it or not...
Cheers-
Have you read the Fire Star Trilogy by Chris D'Lacey? The 3 books are "Fire Within", "Ice Fire", and "Fire Star".
My son (9 yo) is digging them and you might as well.
ps, this is a great thing you've got going on here. I'm going to have my son check out some of the books to see if they are interesting to him.
I think this is a really good summary of the story. I read Hoot this year, I didn't really enjoy it to start with, but then it got exciting.I am currently reading the Belgariad series, I think you would like it.
My name is Nathan, I am also 9 years old and will be in the 4th grade in September.
Andy, Some really good bits (at least bits that I liked) are cottonmouths, definitely cottonmouths; when Mulletfingers takes the bulldozer seats to delay the construction; and when Mulletfingers was nearly beheaded by a bulldozer as his head popped out of an owl's burrow. Before he finds friends, Roy is just trying to fit in in the school and it may be a little slow, but when he starts hanging out with Beatrice and Mulletfingers it is just one wild exciting adventure after another.
hoopfan, This book is close to one of my favorites. Another suggestion for a book by Hiassen that is really good is Flush, which is also about Florida and kids saving the environment, except this is with water instead of land.
SquidgeyFlint, No I haven't read the Fire Star Trilogy. Thanks for the idea, I earned a Borders gift card when people put electric probes on my head. Seriously! Not joking! Actually, they were EEG electrodes.
Anonymous, I agree Hoot starts slow because it takes a while for him to introduce all the characters separately. I haven't read the Belgariad series but I am going to check it out too. Thanks for the idea!
Very interesting and nice:)
I think its really good)
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