Hoot

Resource Information

The work Hoot represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Mitchell Community Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.

Label

Hoot

Statement of responsibility

Carl Hiaasen

Creator

• trueHiaasen, Carl
• Hiaasen, Carl

Contributor

• Alfred A. Knopf, Inc

Author

• Hiaasen, Carl

Publisher

• Alfred A. Knopf, Inc

Subject

• Authors' autographs (Provenance) -- Hiaasen -- 2002
• trueBooks to movies
• Building
• Building -- Juvenile fiction
• Burrowing owl
• Burrowing owl -- Fiction
• Burrowing owl -- Juvenile fiction
• Burrowing owls -- Fiction
• Courage
• Courage -- Juvenile fiction
• Curriculum resource
• Dust jackets (Bindings) -- 2002
• Environmental protection
• trueEnvironmental protection
• Environmental protection -- Fiction
• Environmental protection -- Fiction
• Environmental protection -- Juvenile fiction
• Environmentalism
• Environmentalism -- Juvenile fiction
• Fiction
• trueFlorida
• Florida
• Florida -- Fiction
• Florida -- Fiction
• Florida -- Juvenile fiction
• Friendship
• Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile materials
• Juvenile works
• trueMiddle school students
• trueMoving to a new state
• Owls
• trueOwls
• Owls -- Fiction
• Owls -- Fiction
• Owls -- Juvenile fiction
• trueResistance to land development
• trueSmall towns -- Florida
• Snakes
• Snakes -- Juvenile fiction
• trueVandalism
• trueWildlife conservation
• Wit and humor, Juvenile
• Wit and humor, Juvenile
• trueEco-terrorism
• Alligators
• Alligators -- Juvenile fiction

Genre

• trueBooks to movies
• Curriculum resource
• Dust jackets (Bindings)
• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile materials
• Juvenile works
• Authors' autographs (Provenance)

Language

eng

Summary

Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site

Theme

• trueGreen reads

Tone

• trueFunny

Award

• ALA Notable Children's Book, 2003
• Golden Archer Awards (Wisconsin): Middle/Jr. High, 2007.
• Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award (Minnesota), Division II (Grades 6-8), 2006.
• Nutmeg Children's Book Award, Teen category, 2006.
• Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards, Grades 6-8, 2004.
• Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award (Illinois), 2005.
• YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2003

Awards note

Newbery Honor Book, 2003.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• Middle School
• 760

Intended audience source

Lexile

Interest level

• MG
• MG
• 6-8

LC call number

PZ7.H493

LC item number

Ho 2002

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

760

Literary form

novels

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 6
• 9

PerformerNote

Read by Chad Lowe

Reading level

• 5.2.
• 5.8.
• 5.2
• 5.2
• 5.8

Study program name

• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Counts!
• Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning
• Accelerated Reader AR
• Reading Counts RC

Target audience

pre adolescent