#180 in Children’s books
Hoot
- 304
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Hoot” is a well-paced children’s mystery about what an ordinary kid can do when something close to home is wrong. Newly arrived in Florida, Roy joins the effort to save a colony of burrowing owls from a building site. His persistence makes him easy to like, and the book offers a way to talk about civic action with readers of middle-school age and older.
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About the book
Hoot is a 2002 children's mystery/suspense novel by Carl Hiaasen. The story takes place in Florida, where new arrival Roy makes two oddball friends and a bad enemy. Roy joins an effort to stop construction of a pancake house which would destroy a colony of burrowing owls who live on the site. The book won a Newbery Honor award in 2003.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.3 across 106 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 42% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Children’s books average of 7.9. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 6.2 | 9 | 9% |
| Hardcover | 7.4 | 97 | 92% |
Frequently asked
What age is Hoot for?
Hoot sits on the Children shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 5–10. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 304 pages — shorter than 83% of the ranked books in Children’s books.
In this book
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