Hoot
by Carl Hiaasen
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Book Reviews of Hoot
Book Review: Adam from Lake Tapps says - Just a Hoot
Summary: 5 Stars
A Mouse Saves the Day (name the book, author and location)
This is a book review about the Tale of Despereaux by the Kate DeCammillo. Most of the story takes place in a castle in a land far, far away.
Big ears and a bigger heart (summary 100- 150 words)
In the Tale of Despereaux a small, weak mouse is born to parents who think he will not even live to see the light of the next day's sun. But in this case, the love of a princess holds true and propels Despereaux on a tale that few could survive. The mighty mouse has to deal with his own family who betrays him, an evil rodent who is the king of the dungeon, a somewhat sympathetic jailor and a host of others who can only see a mouse as something to be caught in a trap and discarded. If you like happy endings where good wins over evil please grab this book off the nearest bookshelf and sail off to a land full of mouseful adventures.
I was there (tell why you liked the book)
I loved this book so much. I liked it a lot - even though it is fantasy. But with fantasy comes the fun part - could a mouse really marry a princess? With her story-telling approach, I felt like I was sitting around a campfire with Kate DeCamillo right beside me. She makes the reader feel like she is telling the story just to you. She captures your interest and soon your heart. In every chapter, she starts or ends with," Reader . . . . . Reader do you know what happened next, And then Reader, he fainted." In the end, the author signs off, "Reader, I hope you have found some light here."
It's so real to me (tell one more thing about the book that is important to you)
Just recently one of my best friends got very sick. He had to fight through a terrible disease to save his life. I loved the Tale of Despereaux because he had to also fight for something that he believed in and save himself from probable death in a dungeon. If Deperaux and my friend had not believed in themselves, they might have both died. One of the most powerful things that we can learn from books is how to deal with our own lives and perhaps become a better person.
Thumbs up or down? (Your recommendation)
Whether you are a fantasy reader or not, this is a great book. One of my all-time favorites.
Book Review: Hoot
Summary: 4 Stars
The book I just read is called Hoot by Carl Hiaason. The main conflict in the story is Mother Paula Pancake House wants to build their new pancake house on the land where a community of owls live. The kids of Coconut Cove, Florida, Roy Eberhardt, a 12 year old boy, and his friends Beatrice Leep and Mullet Fingers do many tricks to save the owls.
This was a very exciting book to read because when I got to the end of each chapter I needed to read the next chapter to find out what was going to happen next. I thought the main conflict was interesting because I could see what kids my age could do when they put their mind to something. The characters in this story seem very realistic because they would do something that any person could do in their lives. For example, Roy was always there when his friends needed him. I really enjoyed the end of the book because it was a very exciting and happy ending. I was glad to see that the kids made a difference.
What I think what was most exciting about this book was how the author made his characters and their moods. One person could be wild while the other person was in the worst mood. The author's voice changed through out the book. He could sound light as a feather or as dark as a giant. Another thing I thought was wonderful about the author was when he went from scene to scene and made it sharp so you could remember everything. The vocabulary used was very descriptive so I could just picture everything in its place.
I would give this book an A. I really cared about what Roy and his friends were doing to save the owls. It was a wonderful book and I would recommend it to any of my friends that like to read books about how kids follow their dreams and accomplish something big.
I am glad I read this book. I like seeing someone follow their dreams and accomplishing them. I too would like to do this. I am planning to collect and save money to help a needy kid go to overnight camp. I love camp and I want to give that gift to someone else.
Book Review: Hoot
Summary: 4 Stars
The book I just read is called Hoot by Carl Hiaason. The main conflict in the story is Mother Paula Pancake House wants to build their new pancake house on the land where a community of owls live. The kids of Coconut Cove, Florida, Roy Eberhardt, a 12 year old boy, and his friends Beatrice Leep and Mullet Fingers do many tricks to save the owls.
This was a very exciting book to read because when I got to the end of each chapter I needed to read the next chapter to find out what was going to happen next. I thought the main conflict was interesting because I could see what kids my age could do when they put their mind to something. The characters in this story seem very realistic because they would do something that any person could do in their lives. For example, Roy was always there when his friends needed him. I really enjoyed the end of the book because it was a very exciting and happy ending. I was glad to see that the kids made a difference.
What I think what was most exciting about this book was how the author made his characters and their moods. One person could be wild while the other person was in the worst mood. The author's voice changed through out the book. He could sound light as a feather or as dark as a giant. Another thing I thought was wonderful about the author was when he went from scene to scene and made it sharp so you could remember everything. The vocabulary used was very descriptive so I could just picture everything in its place.
I would give this book an A. I really cared about what Roy and his friends were doing to save the owls. It was a wonderful book and I would recommend it to any of my friends that like to read books about how kids follow their dreams and accomplish something big.
I am glad I read this book. I like seeing someone follow their dreams and accomplishing them. I too would like to do this. I am planning to collect and save money to help a needy kid go to overnight camp. I love camp and I want to give that gift to someone else.
Book Review: Hoot
Summary: 4 Stars
The book I just read is called Hoot by Carl Hiaason. The main conflict in the story is Mother Paula Pancake House wants to build their new pancake house on the land where a community of owls live. The kids of Coconut Cove, Florida, Roy Eberhardt, a 12 year old boy, and his friends Beatrice Leep and Mullet Fingers do many tricks to save the owls.
This was a very exciting book to read because when I got to the end of each chapter I needed to read the next chapter to find out what was going to happen next. I thought the main conflict was interesting because I could see what kids my age could do when they put their mind to something. The characters in this story seem very realistic because they would do something that any person could do in their lives. For example, Roy was always there when his friends needed him. I really enjoyed the end of the book because it was a very exciting and happy ending. I was glad to see that the kids made a difference.
What I think what was most exciting about this book was how the author made his characters and their moods. One person could be wild while the other person was in the worst mood. The author's voice changed through out the book. He could sound light as a feather or as dark as a giant. Another thing I thought was wonderful about the author was when he went from scene to scene and made it sharp so you could remember everything. The vocabulary used was very descriptive so I could just picture everything in its place.
I would give this book an A. I really cared about what Roy and his friends were doing to save the owls. It was a wonderful book and I would recommend it to any of my friends that like to read books about how kids follow their dreams and accomplish something big.
I am glad I read this book. I like seeing someone follow their dreams and accomplishing them. I too would like to do this. I am planning to collect and save money to help a needy kid go to overnight camp. I love camp and I want to give that gift to someone else.
Book Review: Environmental focus and clear prose
Summary: 5 Stars
Just off the moving truck from Montana, Roy Eberhardt is about to start at Trace Middle School down in Coconut Grove, Florida. The new kid in town. Again. And he has new kid syndome bad -- eating lunch by himself, no friends, and the subject of the school bully's free time enjoyment. Things leap from ordinary to extra-O one day when Dana Matherson is beating the loose change out of him on the bus. Roy happens to look out the window and see a strange boy running almost as fast as the bus.
Why isn't the boy going to school? Why is he barefoot? And how is he running so fast?
Roy's quest to find out the identity of this mysterious boy leads him to cross paths with several interesting characters in the process, many of which are adults -- A few police officers, security guards for Mother Paula's All-American Pancake House, the tallest, toughest girl at school, Beatrice, and a nest of burrowing owls at the corner of East Oriole Avenue. This intersection of characters drops Roy into the center of a plot to keep Mother Paula's from building their new restaurant on the site at East Oriole. We can't have them burrying those owls now, can we? Uprooted survey stakes, baby alligators in the portapotties, spraypainted and jawtied cottonmouth snakes on the site, and spraypainted cop car windows are just the start. Something has to be done to defend the owls, and somebody has to do it.
Carl Hiassen's first book for young adults, HOOT seems it will be around for a long time. It's environmental focus and clear prose make it easy to recommend to young readers. And with the movie having already hit the theaters a while back, I wouldn't be surprised if this book makes its way into school classrooms at some point.
-- Reviewed by Jonathan Stephens