# Hoot

**Author:** Carl Hiaasen
**Lexile:** 760L
**Grade range:** Grades 4–7
**Age range:** 9–13
**First published:** 2002
**Page count:** 304
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780375829161`
**ISBN-10:** `0375829164`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/hoot
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

New to Florida, middle-schooler Roy Eberhardt gets tangled up in a plot to save a colony of endangered burrowing owls from a pancake-house construction site. Winner of the 2003 Newbery Honor and a staple of 4th-7th grade environmental-science and ELA units.

## Themes

- environmentalism
- friendship
- activism
- bullying

## Content notes

- bullying

Common Sense Media age recommendation: 10+

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