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Major Themes
Hoot addresses issues of activisim, when the three teenagers work together to save the environment and the burrowing owls living there, responsibility and maturity, for Roy's actions through his responses to his parents and school and the ceremony near the end of the book,and friendship, when comes down to Mullet Fingers being bitten by the Mother Paulas lot guard dog Roy is the one behind the decision to save him.

Adaptations
The novel Hoot has been made into a film directed by Wil Shriner. This film was reviewed as “An Environmentally conscious Newberry Honor novel [that] has been turned into a disappointing and uninspired movie.” by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat on Rotten Tomatoes.

Reception
Charles Straum claimed that “You don’t have to be a young adult to enjoy it.” which differs from Mary Guthrie who praised “Hoot by Carl Hiaasen [as] a hoot of a read for young folks.” Kirkus reviews added that Carl Hiaasen is “fiction’s funniest novelists,” and describes Hoot as “entirely satisfying--[and]indeed, a hoot.”

Characters
Roy Eberhardt is the main character of this novel, frequently moving because of his fathers job working for the government, Roy ends up in Coconut Cove, Florida, and here, Roy goes to Trace Middle, where he meets a variety of people, friends or not.

Mullet Fingers, a “strange boy” who feels strongly to save the burrowing owls, ran away from the military school that he was sent to as a child by his stepmother.

Beatrice Leep, soccer star, is a close friend of Roy’s, she helps him escape the grips of the school bully Dana Matherson many times and through her, Roy becomes involved in the mysteries of Coconut Cove

Dana Matherson, “the biggest, meanest kid on [Roy’s] bus,” repeatedly bullies and “beat[s] up smaller kids”.

David Delinko, a police officer of Coconut Cove, repeatedly tries to prove the captain of his abilities, is also devoted to finding the culprit of the vandalism's.

Leroy “Curly” Branitt, a grumpy man who is in charge of supervising the Mother Paula’s land on Woodbury and East Oriole.

Plot
Hoot, by Carl Hiassen is a story about a boy named Roy Eberhardt, who lives in Florida. The story begins when Roy is on the bus and sees a “strange boy,” with “no shoes,” running along the sidewalk. During his school hours Roy constantly thinks of this odd boy, and the very next day, when he sees the boy again, he punches his school bully Dana Matherson to escape his otherwise inescapable headlock and chase after the boy.

Elsewhere in town the novel cuts to the “future sight of another Mother Paula’s All-American Pancake House.” where there has been a mysterious vandalism. Following the vandalism Roy is confronted by a girl for “” nearly knocking [her] down” when running off the bus, she then tells Roy that he should not be chasing after the boy. During one of his ventures to find the strange shoeless boy Roy stumbles upon cottonmouth moccasins and encounters the boy, who is called “Mullet fingers” who helps him escape the deadly snakes.

Later on Roy figures out that the girl, Beatrice Leep, is not only connected to Mullet fingers, but he is her step brother. He learns this when Beatrice asks for Roy to help her step brother who had been bit by a dog. When Roy starts to ask questions of how the dog bites occurred he discovers that Mullet fingers is the unknown vandal.

Gradually, Roy is pulled into helping Beatrice and Mullet fingers save the owls. Dana attacks Roy when he moons his outside the Mathersons house, and is told that there are cigarettes located on “an empty lot at the corner of Woodbury and East Oriole-- [in] a construction trailer,”, (Leroy Brannitt/Curly’s trailer on the Mother Paula grounds.) Dana, going to this trailer park, is caught by Curly, thought to be the vandal, and brought to jail, all the time pretending to be Roy Eberhard.

For Roy’s current event in Mr. Kelly’s class, he does a presentation on “a new Mother Paula’s” and how “at first [he] was excited for a new pancake house in Coconut Cove [until he] saw something that changed [his] mind completely--an owl.” (Hiaasen 245) all of the people from this class, Beatrice's soccer team, and more come to the opening of the pancake house, and they soon begin to protest the burying of the owl burrows.

Eventually word gets out that the kids of Coconut Cove, Florida had spoken out against the burying of innocent little burrowing owls and more join the cause, the construction of Mother Paula’s is stopped.