Hoot

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• Hoot

  La presentazione e le recensioni di Hoot, opera di Carl Hiaasen edita da Mondadori. Dopo l'ennesimo trasloco con la sua famiglia, Roy è preoccupato: la Florida non sembra abbastanza divertente... Finché un mattino appare quello strano ragazzetto. Dal ... (read full critics)

  Qlibri published on Thu, 13 Oct 2011

• Owl trouble

  Hoot by Carl Hiaasen 276pp, Macmillan, £9.99 The best children's books always have hopeless, hapless, ineffectual adults in them. There's an anarchy in really good children's fiction that comes from putting the well-balanced, badly behaved child char ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  Roy, the new kid, is in for quite

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  horserider said on Jan 2, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  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 ... (continue)

  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.

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  SheReads said on Mar 6, 2007 | Add your feedback

• A children's book with a good moral story. Fine. But not for people over 13. Forced to read by the school.

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  Alex Can said on Apr 22, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

• *** This comment contains spoilers! ***

  Hoot is a story about environmental protection and conflict between adults and children.
  The story starts with Roy, who have just moved to Florida, co-incidentally saw a boy like his age running along the street with bare foot. Sensing a mystery, he went to find out the boy.
  As the result, ... (continue)

  Hoot is a story about environmental protection and conflict between adults and children.
  The story starts with Roy, who have just moved to Florida, co-incidentally saw a boy like his age running along the street with bare foot. Sensing a mystery, he went to find out the boy.
  As the result, he didn't just find out the boy, but also the big mystery behind him: the construction of Mother Paula pancake house and the owls.
  The book mainly focusing on the conflict between the adults and children. The plot is simple but realistic. It has compared the naive but real nature of children and the complicated mind of adults. That's the reason why parents and children can't communicate well, and that is what the story wanted to show to us. The author have fully shown this point with this simple story.
  The book is both suitable for adults and children. For children, it's a simple and short enough story for them. It doesn't contain confusing and deep meaning behind, but simple message: Environmental protection, and the usual conflict between them and their parents, which happens to them nearly everyday. They may really have the sympathy with the main characters. For adults, they can really think of the problem of the ways they communicate with children.

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  Lloyd the Handsome Boy said on Nov 10, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

• "Hoot" bookplate signed by the author

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  Becky said on Nov 10, 2008 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Hardcover 304 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0375821813
• ISBN-13: 9780375821813
• Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Pub date: Sep 10, 2002
• Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Paperback, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding and Others
• In other languages: other languages 繁體書, 简体书, Libros en Español, Libri Italiani

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