Novel Review: By Camille Mohsenin
Do you need a new book? Do you want it to have a little spark, character, and imagination? Then you have to try Hoot. It has the perfect mix of baby alligators, unnaturally sparkly snakes, and a mysterious boy. Warning though, once you start reading Hoot, it is impossible to stop!
The story starts off on a good note, a sunny Monday in Roy Eberhardt’s new home, Florida. Roy, also known as “cowgirl” to his new classmates, noticed a bare foot boy running away as “world famous” fake farter Dana Matherson shoves Roy against the window in their school bus. From there on, you’re hooked, and you can’t stop reading as Roy needs to know who the running boy is, and won’t stop at any limit to find out, even if that means facing Dana Matherson and Beatrice Leep. The story excels ahead at a hundred miles per hour, as you learn about the running boy working hard to stop Mother Paula’s All American Pancake House from opening up the corner of East Oriole and Woodbury, which was not an easy fight. I recommend you read this adventurous novel, for the sake of everything in the world, even if it is just some tiny burrowing owls.
It is hard to pick just one specific part of this sensational novel, but I can say that the characters truly form the whole story.