Roy punches Dana and chases after the boy. A few days later, Roy sees the boy again and starts to chase him, but Dana strikes again, choking Roy. Roy tries to find out who the boy is later at school, but no one seems to know anything about him. While forced to look out, Roy sees a barefoot boy running away from the bus stop. Roy Eberhardt is on the school bus when Dana Matherson, the school bully, forces his face against the window. Hoot is a story of childhood that includes Hiaasen's trademark wit and takes a whole new group of readers on a ride through Hiaasen's Florida. Roy has no way of knowing that befriending this running boy will set him on a course that will end with a demonstration against one of the country's largest pancake houses. Roy becomes fascinated with this boy, determined to find out who he is. While under attack on the school bus by Dana, Roy sees a barefoot boy running away from the bus stop. In Hoot, Roy Eberhardt is the new kid in school and as such he is the current target of school bully, Dana Matherson. “Yes, it is a hoot.Hoot is the first novel for young readers by bestselling author Carl Hiaasen. “You don’t have to be a young adult to enjoy it.”- The New York Times Book Review “A rollicking, righteous story.”- The Miami Herald “A wonderful tour-de-force.”- The Boston Globe He deserves a warm welcome into children’s publishing.”- Booklist The story is full of offbeat humor, buffoonish yet charming supporting characters, and genuinely touching scenes of children enjoying the wildness of nature. In this thoroughly engaging tale of how middle schooler Roy Eberhardt, new kid in Coconut Cove, learns to love South Florida, Hiaasen lets his inner kid run rampant, both the subversive side that loves to see grown-ups make fools of themselves and the righteously indignant side, appalled at the mess being made of our planet. And yet, there has always been something delightfully juvenile about Hiaasen’s imagination beneath the bent cynicism lurks a distinctly 12-year-old cackle. “It seems unlikely that the master of noir-tinged, surrealistic black humor would write a novel for young readers.
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