This book is about a boy named Roy Eberhardt who just moved from Montana to Florida. Instantly he develops a relationship with the class bully, Dana Matherson - and not a good one. But, if Dana had never smashed Roy's face up against the window in the bus, the Roy never would have seen the running boy.
Roy tries again and again to chase the boy, but he's just too fast! When a girl named Beatrice Lee (Nicknamed Beatrice the Bear because she's so big and intimidating) confronts him and warns him not to continue his pursue to catch the boy, Roy just becomes more curious.
When he hears a Mother Paula's Pancake House was opening up nearby, he was happy. But then the future Mother Paula's site stared getting disturbed by an unknown vandal.
The construction workers couldn't continue building the Pancake house until it stop being disturbed, but no one knows who the vandal is, until one day, when Roy talks to the boy.
He discovers that the boy is Beatrice Lee's stepbrother, who people sometimes call Mullet Fingers. Mullet Fingers has problems with his mother, because his mother doesn't know how to take care of him or what to do with him, so she sends him to a military camp. When Mullet Fingers escapes from Military camp, he came back, and was living in a trailer behind a golf course.
Beatrice was covering for him, bringing him food and clothes, and keeping him company because he didn't want to go home to his mother.
When Roy discovers that Mullet Fingers is the Mother Paula's vandal., he is curious as to why. He finds out that Mullet Fingers is a huge animal lover, and that he knew that there were a rare breed of owl called a borrowing owl on the construction site. The birds are very special be cause they are a breed that, instead of making nests, burrow in the ground, hence the name burrowing owls.
There is nothing they can do to stop the workers from plowing through the owls homes, or is there?
Read the fantastic book, Hoot, by Carl Hiaasen to find out!
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