![]() ![]() I liked the fact that throughout this book I found myself relating to Roy in several aspects of his life. It seemed to me that Roy and Mullet Fingers were sinking to – and even below – Dana’s level of meanness. (To answer the obvious question: the reason I was reading this book is because I’m doing my library book challenge which requires me to read a book from the year I was born.) I also didn’t like how the boys framed and used Dana, even if he was terrible to them. ![]() I may just be too old for this book, or maybe it’s because I don’t like books about animals, but I found myself bored while reading Hoot. There’s a pancake house, a bunch of endangered owls, and a juvenile delinquent who can catch fish with his fingers. It wasn’t terrible, but Hoot definitely doesn’t rank in my Top Ten Favorite Books List – or even my top two hundred. Only after an unforeseen accident does Roy meet the running boy, and after that the bizarre things which have been happening down at the site of a new pancake house start to make sense. Curious, Roy determines to find out who this strange boy is, but neither the boy, nor the tough girl at school, want him found. Roy saw him tearing down the street as if being chased – but there was no one behind him. “I get it.”” ( Hoot, page 124)įirst there was the running boy. ![]() There, standing by the hole and peering curiously at one of the meatballs, was the smallest owl he had ever seen… “ Roy heard a short high-pitched coo-coo. ![]()
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