ORB

Hoot
My ORB was Hoot by Carl Hiaasen. It was about a boy named Roy Eberhardt who just moved to Florida from Montana. He had to deal with bullies and try to make friends like any other kid. But one day he saw a kid running around with no shoes on, he also discovered that this boy doesn’t go to school.

Meanwhile a construction site for a pancake house keeps getting sabotaged by an unknown vandal. The construction company tried everything to keep this person. They had a police car stay there over night. They bought guard dogs and they even made the head of the project sleep in a trailer on the site. But somehow this vandal would get onto the site anyway.

As Roy tried to find out more about the shoeless kid he had a confrontation with the boy and his stepsister. And the three of them eventually became best friends. It was then that Roy discovered that it was the shoeless boy who was sabotaging the pancake house. It turns out that there were some burrowing owls on the construction site and they would all be killed when the pancake house was built.

Roy did lots of research on these owls and eventually discovered that they were an endangered species and that you couldn’t destroy there home without a special permit. So Roy went to town hall and found out that all the documents for the building rights were missing. Roy and his friends then asked a bunch of kids from school to go to the site at lunch where they would be having a ceremony for the start of the pancake house being built. They were able to show everyone that the owls really lived there and that it would be illegal to build over their homes. so the man in charge of the building was arrested and the owls were saved