Hoot: Hiaasen, Carl: 9780440419396: Amazon.com: Books

This item: Hoot

$5.57

Get it as soon as Wednesday, Sep 30

In Stock

Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.

+

Hatchet

$5.41

Get it as soon as Wednesday, Sep 30

In Stock

Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.

+

The Outsiders

$9.24

Get it as soon as Wednesday, Sep 30

In Stock

Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.

Total price: $00

To see our price, add these items to your cart.

Try again!

Details

Added to Cart

Choose items to buy together.

Chomp
Carl Hiaasen

Paperback
Teachers' pick
-36%$7.02
List: $10.99
Get it as soon as Wednesday, Sep 30
FREE Shipping on orders over $35 shipped by Amazon
Flush
Carl Hiaasen

Paperback
Teachers' pick
-15%$8.49
List: $9.99
Get it as soon as Wednesday, Sep 30
FREE Shipping on orders over $35 shipped by Amazon
Scat
Carl Hiaasen

Paperback
Teachers' pick
-32%$6.79
List: $9.99
Get it as soon as Wednesday, Sep 30
FREE Shipping on orders over $35 shipped by Amazon
Hiaasen 6-Book Paperback Boxed Set: Hoot; Flush; Scat; Chomp; Squirm; Wrecker
Carl Hiaasen

Paperback
-42%$35.06
List: $59.94
Get it as soon as Wednesday, Sep 30
FREE Shipping by Amazon
Only 7 left in stock - order soon.
Squirm
Carl Hiaasen

Paperback
-30%$6.99
List: $9.99
Get it as soon as Wednesday, Sep 30
FREE Shipping on orders over $35 shipped by Amazon
It's Like This, Cat: A Newbery Award Winner
Emily Cheney Neville

Paperback
Teachers' pick
-42%$6.39
List: $10.99
Get it as soon as Wednesday, Sep 30
FREE Shipping on orders over $35 shipped by Amazon

Customers also bought or read

Page 1 of 1Start over

Scat
3,024
Paperback
$6.79
Delivery Wed, Sep 30
Chomp
4,669
Paperback
$7.02
Delivery Wed, Sep 30
Flush
3,775
Paperback
$8.49
Delivery Wed, Sep 30
Rick Riordan Presents: Race to the Sun
879
Paperback
$6.79
Delivery Wed, Sep 30
Stand Tall
237
Paperback
$10.99
Delivery Oct 18 - 24
Secrets of Shakespeare's Grave: The Shakespeare Mysteries, Book 1
144
Paperback
$7.99
Delivery Wed, Sep 30
Squirm
3,708
Paperback
$6.99
Delivery Wed, Sep 30
Holes
36,789
Children's Mystery, Detective, & Spy
Paperback
$6.99
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963
6,014
Paperback
$6.66
Delivery Wed, Sep 30
Letters from Rifka
710
Paperback
$6.50
Delivery Wed, Sep 30
A Guide for Using Hoot in the Classroom (Literature Units)
20
Paperback
$9.99
Delivery Wed, Sep 30
Hatchet
28,506
Teen & Young Adult Fiction about Being a Teen
Paperback
$5.41
Delivery Wed, Sep 30
Wrecker
3,789
Paperback
$8.51
Delivery Wed, Sep 30
Swear to Howdy
63
Paperback
$6.99
Delivery Wed, Sep 30
A Long Walk to Water: A Powerful Adventure of Survival, Perseverance, and Hope in Sudan
27,655
Children's African Historical Fiction
Paperback
$6.17
Delivery Wed, Sep 30
God King: A Story in the Days of King Hezekiah
462
Paperback
$12.82
Delivery Wed, Sep 30
Wonder
87,757
Hardcover
$9.25
Delivery Oct 6 - 12
Restart
12,644
Paperback
$5.58
Delivery Wed, Sep 30
Number the Stars: A Newbery Award Winner – An Inspiring Story of Courage and Friendship during the Danish Resistance for Children (Ages 10–12)
22,053
Children's European Historical Fiction
Paperback
$6.25
Delivery Wed, Sep 30
Out of My Mind (The Out of My Mind Series)
18,199
Children's Books on Disabilities
Paperback
$6.92
Delivery Wed, Sep 30
The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
9,115
Paperback
$6.98
Delivery Wed, Sep 30
Skink--No Surrender
7,352
Paperback
$7.35
Delivery Wed, Sep 30
Bud, Not Buddy: (Newbery Medal Winner)
7,427
Paperback
$6.37
Delivery Oct 13 - 23
The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary
231
Paperback
$6.59
Delivery Wed, Sep 30
The Lemonade War: Siblings Evan and Jessie wage a five-day lemonade-stand rivalry―a witty, heartfelt tale of math, business, and family for ages 8-12. (The Lemonade War Series, 1)
4,926
Children's Money & Saving Reference
Paperback
$6.27
Delivery Wed, Sep 30
Walk Two Moons
6,303
Paperback
$6.95
Delivery Wed, Sep 30
A Wrinkle in Time: (Newbery Medal Winner)
30,899
Children's Time Travel Science Fiction
Paperback
$5.80
Delivery Wed, Sep 30
Fish in a Tree
12,969
Paperback
$6.82
Delivery Wed, Sep 30

Loading...

From the Publisher

adventure books summer reading funny books for girls funny books for boys newberry newbery Hiassen

	Hoot	Flush	Scat	Chomp	Wrecker

Customer Reviews	6,130	3,775	3,024	4,669	3,789
Read all the books from Carl Hiaasen!	A new kid might expect bullying—but not alligators, burrowing owls, a renegade eco-avenger, and several poisonous snakes, too...	A hilarious, high-stakes adventure involving crooked casino boats, floating fish, toxic beaches, and one kid determined to get justice.	Head deep into the Everglades with an eccentric eco-avenger, a ticked-off panther, and two kids on a mission to find their missing teacher.	Wahoo Cray is used to wrangling things—gators, snakes, monkeys—but a reality TV show host is another story!	Wrecker needs to deal with smugglers, grave robbers, and pooping iguanas—just as soon as he finishes Zoom school.

	Skink--No Surrender	Squirm	Hiaasen 5-Book Trade Paperback Box Set

Customer Reviews	7,352	3,708	368
Take a trip to Carl Hiaasen's Florida!	Richard's cousin is missing, and his best hope of finding her rests with the wily, one-eyed, ex-governor of Florida.	Billy is determined to find his missing father—but first he'll have to take on snakes, grizzlies, and a menacing drone!	A collectible box set that includes the bestsellers Hoot, Flush, Scat, Chomp, and Squirm!

Editorial Reviews

Review

“It seems unlikely that the master of noir-tinged, surrealistic black humor would write a novel for young readers. And yet, there has always been something delightfully juvenile about Hiaasen’s imagination; beneath the bent cynicism lurks a distinctly 12-year-old cackle. 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. The story is full of offbeat humor, buffoonish yet charming supporting characters, and genuinely touching scenes of children enjoying the wildness of nature. He deserves a warm welcome into children’s publishing.”—Booklist

“A wonderful tour-de-force.”—The Boston Globe

“A rollicking, righteous story.”—The Miami Herald

“You don’t have to be a young adult to enjoy it.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Yes, it is a hoot.”—The Washington Post Book World

From the Back Cover

A book for young readers. It involves new kids, bullies, alligators, eco-warriors, pancakes, and pint-sized owls. A hilarious
Floridian adventure!

About the Author

CARL HIAASEN was born and raised in Florida. He writes a column for the Miami Herald and is the author of many bestselling novels including Bad Monkey, Razor Girl, and Squeeze Me.

His books for younger readers include the Newbery Honor winner Hoot, as well as Flush, Scat, Squirm, and Chomp. Skink—No Surrender was Hiaasen's first book for teens and features one of his most iconic characters, the reclusive ex-governor of Florida now known as Skink.

You can read more about Hiaasen's work at carlhiaasen.com.

Roy would not have noticed the strange boy if it weren't for Dana Matherson, because Roy ordinarily didn't look out the window of the school bus. He preferred to read comics and mystery books on the morning ride to Trace Middle.

But on this day, a Monday (Roy would never forget), Dana Matherson grabbed Roy's head from behind and pressed his thumbs into Roy's temple, as if he were squeezing a soccer ball. The older kids were supposed to stay in the back of the bus, but Dana had snuck up behind Roy's seat and ambushed him. When Roy tried to wriggle free, Dana mushed his face against the window.

It was then, squinting through the smudged glass, that Roy spotted the strange boy running along the sidewalk. It appeared as if he was hurrying to catch the school bus, which had stopped at a corner to pick up more kids.

The boy was straw-blond and wiry, and his skin was nutbrown from the sun. The expression on his face was intent and serious. He wore a faded Miami Heat basketball jersey and dirty khaki shorts, and here was the odd part: no shoes. The soles of his bare feet looked as black as barbecue coals.

Trace Middle School didn't have the world's strictest dress code, but Roy was pretty sure that some sort of footwear was required. The boy might have been carrying sneakers in his backpack, if only he'd been wearing a backpack. No shoes, no backpack, no books-strange, indeed, on a school day.

Roy was sure that the barefoot boy would catch all kinds of grief from Dana and the other big kids once he boarded the bus, but that didn't happen....

Because the boy kept running-past the corner, past the line of students waiting to get on the bus; past the bus itself. Roy wanted to shout, "Hey, look at that guy!" but his mouth wasn't working so well. Dana Matherson still had him from behind, pushing his face against the window.

As the bus pulled away from the intersection, Roy hoped to catch another glimpse of the boy farther up the street. However, he had turned off the sidewalk and was now cutting across a private yard-running very fast, much faster than Roy could run and maybe even faster than Richard, Roy's best friend back in Montana. Richard was so fast that he got to work out with the high school track squad when he was only in seventh grade.

Dana Matherson was digging his fingernails into Roy's scalp, trying to make him squeal, but Roy barely felt a thing. He was gripped with curiosity as the running boy dashed through one neat green yard after another, getting smaller in Roy's vision as he put a wider distance between himself and the school bus.

Roy saw a big pointy-eared dog, probably a German shepherd, bound off somebody's porch and go for the boy. Incredibly, the boy didn't change his course. He vaulted over the dog, crashed through a cherry hedge, and then disappeared from view.

Roy gasped.

"Whassamatter, cowgirl? Had enough?"

This was Dana, hissing in Roy's right ear. Being the new kid on the bus, Roy didn't expect any help from the others. The "cowgirl" remark was so lame, it wasn't worth getting mad about. Dana was a well-known idiot, on top of which he outweighed Roy by at least fifty pounds. Fighting back would have been a complete waste of energy.

"Had enough yet? We can't hear you, Tex." Dana's breath smelled like stale cigarettes. Smoking and beating up smaller kids were his two main hobbies.

"Yeah, okay," Roy said impatiently. "I've had enough."

As soon as he was freed, Roy lowered the window and stuck out his head. The strange boy was gone.

Who was he? What was he running from?

Roy wondered if any of the other kids on the bus had seen what he'd seen. For a moment he wondered if he'd really seen it himself.

That same morning, a police officer named David Delinko was sent to the future site of another Mother Paula's All-American Pancake House. It was a vacant lot at the corner of East Oriole and Woodbury, on the eastern edge of town.

Officer Delinko was met by a man in a dark blue pickup truck. The man, who was as bald as a beach ball, introduced himself as Curly. Officer Delinko thought the bald man must have a good sense of humor to go by such a nickname, but he was wrong. Curly was cranky and unsmiling.

"You should see what they done," he said to the policeman.

"Who?"

"Follow me," the man called Curly said.

Officer Delinko got in step behind him. "The dispatcher said you wanted to report some vandalism."

"That's right," Curly grunted over his shoulder.

The policeman couldn't see what there was to be vandalized on the property, which was basically a few acres of scraggly weeds. Curly stopped walking and pointed at a short piece of lumber on the ground. A ribbon of bright pink plastic was tied to one end of the stick. The other end was sharpened and caked with gray dirt.

Curly said, "They pulled 'em out."

"That's a survey stake?" asked Officer Delinko.

"Yep. They yanked 'em out of the ground, every damn one.

"Probably just kids."

"And then they threw'em every which way," Curly said, waving a beefy arm, "and then they filled in the holes."

"That's a little weird," the policeman remarked. "When did this happen?"

"Last night or early this morning," Curly said. "Maybe it don't look like a big deal, but it's gonna take a while to get the site marked out again. Meantime, we can't start clearin' or gradin' or nuthin'. We got backhoes and dozers already leased, and now they gotta sit. I know it don't look like the crime of the century, but still-"

"I understand," said Officer Delinko. "What's your estimate of the monetary damage?"

"Damage?"

"Yes. So I can put it in my report." The policeman picked up the survey stake and examined it. "It's not really broken, is it?"

"Well, no-"

"Were any of them destroyed?" asked Officer Delinko. "How much does one of these things cost-a buck or two?"

The man called Curly was losing his patience. "They didn't break none of the stakes," he said gruffly.

"Not even one?" The policeman frowned. He was trying to figure out what to put in his report. You can't have vandalism without monetary damages, and if nothing on the property was broken or defaced....

"What I'm tryin' to explain," Curly said irritably, "it's not that they messed up the survey stakes, it's them screwing up our whole construction schedule. That's where it'll cost some serious bucks."

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yearling
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 27, 2005
Edition ‏ : ‎ Reprint
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 292 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0440419395
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0440419396
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.8 ounces
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 9 - 12 years, from customers
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.74 x 7.63 inches
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 5 - 6
Best Sellers Rank: #5,782 in Office Products (See Top 100 in Office Products)
- #9 in Children's Recycling & Green Living Books
- #20 in Children's Environment Books (Books)
- #46 in Children's Bird Books (Books)
Customer Reviews:
(6,130)

About the author

Follow authors for new release and deal updates, plus improved recommendations. See updates from all followed authors in Your Books.

Carl Hiaasen

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Carl Hiaasen was born and raised in Florida, where he still lives. He is a prize-winning journalist with a regular column in the Miami Herald and many articles in varied magazines. He started writing crime fiction in the early 1980s and has recently branched out into children's books; he has also had several works of non-fiction published.