In the book Hoot by Carl Hiaasen, a kid named Roy Eberhardt is new to the town Coconut Cove. On his first day of school Roy is riding the bus, but all of a sudden, he sees a kid who’s running to nowhere with no shoes.  After seeing him a few more times, he finally got the chance to meet him. Well after meeting this kid, he found his name was Mullet Fingers. Mullet Fingers told Roy about these protected owls. The construction site for Mother Paula’s Pancake house, a new restaurant, is being built on top of the owl’s habitat. Once Roy found out, he wanted to do something about it, he wanted to make a difference. Roy was determined to save the owls.

In the book Hoot by Carl Hiaasen, there were different conflicts, the author skillfully built up to the climax. I feel like Carl Hiaasen purposefully kept this book easy to read for younger audiences. One thing I think Mr. Hiaasen could improve is starting up the conflict quicker, because I feel like some people could give up on the book before they get to the real conflict. I did like how Mr. Hiaasen created a smaller conflict between Dana, the bully, and Roy so that readers would  continue to read and find out what happens between them. I liked how Carl Hiaasen created a long rising action, so readers were interested every time they came back to the book. I’m going to side with Mr. Hiaasen when he said that this book was meant for young teenagers/older children because, it’s an easy read, yet there are some parts that may be difficult to understand.