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Hoot Book Report

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The book I read was Hoot. It was created by Carl Hiaasen in 2002, and won a Newberry Honor 2003. The story starts out with Roy being bullied on the bus by a large, unruly enemy named Dana Matherson. Dana had mushed his face against the bus window when he saw a odd boy, running bare foot on the street. He decided to chase the boy, but Dana kept grabbing him, he punched Dana so hard that it breaks his nose. Roy then ran but got hurt by a golf ball and forfeit. Roy recently moved to Florida from Montana, which he was sad about, his father worked in the Federal Department of Justice, and he has moved to 6 different places for his job. Montana was Roy's favorite. Meanwhile, Coconut Cove is getting a new pancake house from Mother Paula's company. …show more content…

He went into the forest and Mullet Fingers marches him out. He asked a girl at school, Beatrice Leep, about this. Beatrice threatened him. Later, she befriended him and told Mullet Fingers about him.

Curly, who had been trying to fix the property, had Officer Delinko write a report on the vandalism. Officer Delinko fell asleep in his cruiser, and his car got spray painted by a mysterious person, probably Mullet Fingers. Other bizarre things had happened there. A example would be alligators in port-a-potties, along with the acts of vandalism happening there. Officer Delinko got punished by having his cruiser taken away for a month and put on desk duty.

Beatrice brings Roy to Mullet Finger's hide-out near the golf course. There, he was hiding in a truck with a sign that said “Jo Jo's Ice Cream and Sno Cones”. Mullet Fingers then tells Roy about his mission. Mullet Fingers wanted to stop the building of Mother Paula's All American Pancake House because of the owls. Mullet Fingers continued vandalizing the …show more content…

Roy stayed at his desk, and Mr. Ryan, his teacher went with him to the bus. Dana got stopped by Mr. Ryan, and got stopped. Roy tried again to apologize to Dana. He got stopped and got hurt by Dana, until Roy convinces her to stop because Roy convinced her of a secret: cigarettes in Mother Paula's lot.

Curly, on his first attempt to stop the vandals, contacted a German man called Kalo. He had rented 3 guard dogs, but when Kalo came, while they negotiated, Kalo saw there were snakes in the lot, with a sparkly tail. Kalo then left because he did not want the dogs to get bit because they were expensive.

Curly had decided he had to spend the night in the trailer at the construction site to attempt to stop the vandals. Later in the story, Dana Matherson gets caught trespassing and gets sent to a detention center. He was after the Gladiator Golds, which Dana got out of Roy when Dana was beating him

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