Hoot Themes

The environment plays such a huge part in this book that we actually considered listing Mother Nature as a character. But the natural world is more than just a component in Hoot, it's at the core o...

Rules are meant to be broken. At least that's what all the rule breakers say. And Hoot is dedicated those who break, bend, or completely ignore the rules. But our case study gets a little complicat...

Like most great YA books, Hoot focuses on the main character and his bosom buddies. Roy's major friendships (with Mullet Fingers, Beatrice and Garrett) are all very different from each other. But w...

The good, the bad, and the Mathersons. We get all sorts of families with Hoot—and some are definitely better than others. The three main examples of families are the Eberhardts, the Leeps, and th...

There are tons of different kinds of lies. White lies. Blatant lies. Pretty little lies. Sometimes even half-truths count. And there's a lot of lying going on in Hoot—in fact, everyone's doing it...

Hoot knows that getting your learn on is super-valuable. But it also knows that education occurs both in and outside of the classroom. Our two models on the education spectrum are Mullet Fingers (w...

What's an owl's favorite question? Hoo are you?Sorry. We couldn't get through a guide on Hoot without at least one lame owl joke. But ask that same question to Roy throughout the book and you're su...

One thing that Roy is certainly not shy about is how much he loooves Montana. Around every corner there is something about Florida that he's comparing to his old home—the lack of mountains, the l...