I have read other books by Hiassen directed at adults. They were hilarious, and this one was as well. Hiassen will appeal to mischeivious middle school and maybe high school boys. The boys in the story are mischeivious for a good cause to save burrowing owls in a small town in Florida. I listened to it and read it depending on what I had time for. The reader was Chad Lowe. He was ok, but I think someone else might have been better.