![]() Roy calls for a truce, but Dana refuses to accept.Ī restaurant called Mother Paula's All-American Pancake House decides to build a franchise in Coconut Cove, but vandalism delays the work. Vice-Principal Viola Hennepin suspends Roy from the bus for two weeks and orders him to write an apology to Dana. However, Roy can't catch the running boy because a golf ball hits Roy in the head. He escapes after punching Dana in the face, breaking his nose, and then exiting the bus. Roy tries to leave the bus, but Dana viciously chokes and strangles him. On the bus to school, Roy sees a boy running barefoot outside. ![]() The main character Roy Eberhardt moves from Montana to Florida and into the fictional town of Coconut Cove, where a 7th grader, Dana Matherson, starts to bully him. ![]() The book won a Newbery Honor award in 2003. The setting takes place in Florida, where new arrival Roy makes two oddball friends and a bad enemy, and joins an effort to stop construction of a pancake house which would destroy a colony of burrowing owls who live on the site. Hoot is a 2002 mystery/suspense novel, recommended for ages 9–12, by Carl Hiaasen. ![]()
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