Hoot

by Carl Hiaasen | Audiobooks | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0375829164 Global Overview for this book
Registered by crrcookie of Tecumseh, Oklahoma USA on 11/23/2008
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Journal Entry 1 by crrcookie from Tecumseh, Oklahoma USA on Sunday, November 23, 2008
In early Ocober 2008 I made a trip to the Book Thing in Baltimore to stock up on books. I am just now getting the chance to register this book.

Journal Entry 2 by crrcookie from Tecumseh, Oklahoma USA on Monday, November 24, 2008
This book is a Newbery Medal Honor Book for the year 2003.

The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.


Journal Entry 3 by crrcookie from Tecumseh, Oklahoma USA on Monday, November 24, 2008
This book was on the Sequoyah Book Award Masterlist for Young Adults for the year 2005.

Sponsored by the Oklahoma Library Association (OLA), the annual Sequoyah Book Award is a student’s choice award presented since 1959. The program added a Young Adult literature award in 1987. Books chosen for the annual Sequoyah masterlist are selected by two committees of OLA members. Each member of the committee reads over 100 books before recommending titles for the masterlists.
During the school year, young Oklahomans from grades three through junior high are encouraged to read the titles from the masterlist. Students must read or listen to three books in order to cast a vote. The winning book is announced in February and the award is presented during the annual Oklahoma Library Association’s spring conference.
With this award, Oklahoma honors the Native American leader, Sequoyah, for his unique achievement in creating the Cherokee syllabary. In so doing, he created a way to preserve his people’s language and culture.


Journal Entry 4 by crrcookie from Tecumseh, Oklahoma USA on Monday, November 24, 2008
I liked this book and I can immediately see why it was chosen for several awards. It is curious from the very beginning and draws the reader in to figure out how the events are going to be connected.
I’m not sure that I really liked the characters but I think that they might very well be representative of what real people might be like. I also don’t know that I was comfortable with a children’s book that had so many controversial issues in the background that an adult can easily pick up from “between the lines”.
The storyline seemed to wander at times and I wished it could have stayed on track a little better. I sometimes felt like there were parts that didn’t seem to matter to the whole story and that maybe the book was getting a little bit long.

I would recommend this book to young people and older people because the idea is strong that we need to stand up for the environment and learn how to make our beliefs heard even though some of the ways that it was done in this story bordered on criminal.

Journal Entry 5 by crrcookie from Tecumseh, Oklahoma USA on Sunday, March 8, 2009
This book was released for the 2009 Movie/TV Books Release Challenge from the release challenge forum.

This is release #39 for this challenge.

Journal Entry 6 by crrcookie from Tecumseh, Oklahoma USA on Sunday, March 8, 2009
This book was released for the 2009 Oh, The Places We Can Go! Release Challenge from the release challenge forum.

Can you find the place name in the title of this book? I used this World City Name Database to help me find places I would not have known otherwise.

This is release #135 for this challenge.

Journal Entry 7 by crrcookie from Tecumseh, Oklahoma USA on Sunday, March 8, 2009
This book is being counted for the 2009 Track Your Challenge Releases from the release challenge forum. This book is being released for one or more other challenges.

This is release #357 for the year that qualifies for this challenge.

Journal Entry 8 by crrcookie at Carroll Community College in Westminster, Maryland USA on Sunday, March 8, 2009

Released 15 yrs ago (3/7/2009 UTC) at Carroll Community College in Westminster, Maryland USA

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This book is a part of the books to be given away at

The Annual Random House Book Fair

Benefiting Carroll Community College's student scholarships.

Saturday, March 7
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Free and open to the public

BookCrossers will host a table where people may come and take free books. Leftover books may be donated to the OBCZ (Official Book Crossing Zone) in the library.

This is a one time event and although you may find a leftover book or two after the event you should not try to hunt for specific books released for this event.


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