Here's the recap I shared after our group met to discuss the book Hoot by Carl Hiassen. Feel free to add your own personal comments about the book to this post!
Sent back in July 2006:
We had a nice discussion. In general we felt it was an "ok" book. Not as rivoting compared to our first one nor our next one either, but it was a good fun summer read. We thought some of the websites stretched the ability to really pair with curriculem outside of perhaps social studies/environmental studies and even then we thought there were probably stronger books on such issues. We liked the message of kids finding a cause and standing up and doing something that they believe in. We liked the relationship between Roy and his family. We thought the other characters were a bit caricatured, but one of the members added that even his adult books tend to do that. Not one that we felt we'd rave about, but perhaps recommend in the right circumstances as a librarian or parent for some fun reading. We did think it was nice to read a book that would be interesting to boys without it being too sport heavy or macho-centric.
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