Hoot

Resource Information

The work Hoot represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

Hoot

Statement of responsibility

Carl Hiaasen

Creator

• trueHiaasen, Carl

Author

• trueHiaasen, Carl

Subject

• trueOwls
• Fiction
• Environmental protection
• Florida
• Environmental protection -- Fiction
• trueEco-terrorism
• trueMiddle school students
• Burrowing owl -- Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile works
• trueEnvironmental protection
• Burrowing owl
• Florida -- Fiction
• Environmentalism
• trueResistance to land development
• Owls -- Fiction
• trueVandalism
• trueFlorida
• Florida -- Juvenile fiction
• trueSmall towns -- Florida
• Burrowing owl -- Fiction
• Juvenile works
• trueMoving to a new state
• Fiction
• trueWildlife conservation
• trueBooks to movies
• Environmentalism -- Juvenile fiction
• Environmental protection -- Juvenile fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile works
• trueBooks to movies

Language

eng

Summary

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, Roy, and his feral friend prank the pancake people out of town? Or is the owls' fate cemented in pancake batter?

Theme

• trueGreen reads

Tone

• trueFunny

Award

• ALA Notable Children's Book, 2003
• Golden Archer Awards (Wisconsin): Middle/Jr. High, 2007.
• Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award (Minnesota), Division II (Grades 6-8), 2006.
• Nutmeg Children's Book Award, Teen category, 2006.
• Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards, Grades 6-8, 2004.
• Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award (Illinois), 2005.
• YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2003

Awards note

Newbery Honor Book, 2003

Cataloging source

BKX

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• 5.5
• 010-up

Interest level

MG

LC call number

• PS3558.I217
• PZ7.H52

LC item number

• H66 2005
• Ho 2005

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

760

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 6
• 9

NLM call number

Hiaasen, C.

Reading level

• 5.2
• 5.2

Study program name

• Accelerated reader
• Accelerated Reader AR

Target audience

pre adolescent