Plot
Hoot is about a 12 year old boy named boy named Roy Eberdhart that is new kid a Trace Middle School. On the bus, Roy fights with a bully named Dana Matherson. During the fight, Dana pushes Roy onto one of the windows that were in the bus and sees Mullet Finger runs past the bus. That was the first thing Roy was interested in since he moved to Florida. The next day. Roy followed Mullet Finger until he stopped at the Mother Paula Pancake House constructions site. He finds out that he was the one that was doing all that vandalism for the endangered burrowing owls. Mullet Finger was already helped by Beatrice his stepsister. The police were trying to find out who were the ones that were vandalizing, so Officer Delinko set up guard dogs and other traps to keep the vandalist away from the site. One day Mullet Finger was trying to get past the dogs to go to the owls. The dog bit him really hard ,and he ended up going to the Emergency Room. He didn't want to use his real name ,so Mullet Finger put as himself as Roy since he doesn't want to use his full name. Roy told Dana that there cigarettes at the construction site.He fell for the trick ,and so the police thought that Dana was the vandal. Then they found out that the Grand Opening of the pancake house is a week, Roy tells his class ,and starts a riot to save the owls with Mullet FInger and Beatrice. On the day before the Grand Opening, Roy and Mullet Finger were going to take a picture of the owls , so they can show Chuck Muckle to stop building the construction site. On the day of the Grand Opening, Roy finds out that Mullet Finger didn't take the picture on focus. When they were about to grab on to their Roy screamed"Wait !". He showed Roy the Chuck Muckle the owls ,and he canceled the construction. They were happy that they saved they owls.