Hoot

                  Hoot by Carl Hiaasen is about a kid named Roy who was new to Coconut Cove,Florida,is bullied by other kids on the bus to school. He is intrigued by a running boy running past one of the bus stops. One day he decides to follow him down the sidewalk. The boy leads him to a golf course where Roy gets knocked out by a golf ball. Later that week, Roy goes to the golf course to see if he can find the running boy. He goes through many pepper trees to find him but only finds three bags: one held trash, another held clean clothes, and the last held nine cottonmouth moccasins;which are highly poisonous. The boy then told Roy, later on in the book, that he was trying to save some burrowing owls that were in danger of getting buried.To learn more read Hoot. 292 pages.