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* #1 New York Times bestseller
* Newbery Honor 수상도서
* Winner of the Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC) CHOICES AWARD
* ALA Best Books for Young Adults
* ALA Notable Children's Book
* Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice Award Winner
* Pacific Northwest Young Readers Choice Award
* Indian Paintbrush Award
* Texas Lone Star Reading List Winner
* Arizona Young Readers Award Winner
* Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award
* Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award
* Iowa Teen Book Award
* Kentucky Bluegrass Master List
* Maine Student Book Master List
* Massachusetts Children's Book Award
* Minnesota Maud Heart Lovelace Award
* Connecticut Nutmeg Children's Book Award
* Florida Sunshine State Book Master List
* Hawaii Nene Award
* Kansas William White Master List
* Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Master List
* Missouri Mark Twain Award
* Nevada Young Readers Award
* New Hampshire Great Stone Face Children's Book Master List
* New Jersey Garden State Teen Book Award
* North Dakota Flicker Tale Children's Book Master List
* Oklahoma Sequoyah Young Adult Book Master List
* Rhode Island Teen Book Master List
* Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fischer Book Master List
* Wisconsin Golden Archer Book Award


국내에서는 "후트"라는 제목으로 번역서가 출간되었으며, 영화로도 만들어진 명작 아동문학책입니다. 미국에서는 어린 아이들이 반드시 읽어야 하는 필독서 중 한 권으로 꼽히는 책입니다.

가족을 따라서 플로리다로 이사 온 로이는 덩치 큰 아이들의 괴롭힘을 당하면서, Mullet Fingers로 불리우는 새로운 친구를 만나게 되고, 둘은 의기투합해서 올빼미들의 둥지가 있는 곳에 프랜차이즈 식당을 지으려는 개발업자 및 경찰과 맞서게 됩니다.

이 책은 거대 기업의 무분별한 개발과 이를 둘러싼 어른들의 부조리, 학교 내에서 벌어지는 전학생이 겪는 불안감, 학교 친구와의 관계, 이웃과 가족 간의 관계 등 만만치 않는 주제를 다루고 있습니다. 또한 올빼미와 세 소년을 통해 변화해 가는 동네 사람들의 모습을 희망으로 전달하고 있습니다.

개발과 환경보존이라는 대립되는 명제를 작가 Carl Hiaasen이 풍자와 위트로 풀어나가는 재미있는 책입니다.






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Edition: Paperback: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0375829164
ISBN-13: 978-0375829161
책 크기: 20cm x 13cm



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Book Description
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.


Publishers Weekly
"With a Florida setting and pro-environment, anti-development message, Hiaasen returns to familiar turf for his first novel for young readers," wrote PW. "Several suspenseful scenes, along with dollops of humor, help make this quite a hoot indeed."


Alan Review
Roy Eberhardt's most recent move has taken him from the mountains of Montana to the flatlands of Florida. "Disney World is an armpit," he states unhappily, "compared to Montana." On the first day of school, he meets Dana Matherson... rather he meets Dana's fist during a bus ride brawl. While pressed against the school bus window, Roy spots a running boy. This boy is carrying no backpack, and oddly enough, is wearing no shoes! Desperate to find some action in Florida, Roy trails the barefoot runner. As a friendship with the mysterious boy develops, Roy becomes involved in an attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from the construction of the new "Mother Paula's All-American Pancake House." In his telling of Roy's story, popular author Carl Hiassen creates a character who is not only believable, but extremely likeable. The story is told in a way that gives the reader insight into Roy's thoughts, actions, and rationale. Hiassen captures our interest as he manages to show how young Roy can be obedient, caring, and unconventional ?all at the same time.


School Library Journal
Packed with quirky characters and improbable plot twists, Hiaasen's first novel for young readers is entertaining but ultimately not very memorable. Fans of the author's adult novels will find trademark elements-including environmental destruction, corrupt politicians, humorous situations, and a Florida setting-all viewed through the eyes of a middle-school student. Roy Eberhardt has just moved with his family to Coconut Cove. He immediately becomes the target of a particularly dense bully who tries to strangle him on the school bus. Roy seems more concerned, however, with discovering the identity of a running, barefoot boy he spots through the window of the bus. Meanwhile, plans to build a pancake house on a vacant lot are derailed when someone vandalizes the construction site. The two story lines come together when Roy discovers that the runaway boy is disrupting the construction to save a group of burrowing owls. Roy must help his new friend, nicknamed Mullet Fingers, as well as fend off the bully and adapt to life in Florida. The story is silly at times but rarely laugh-out-loud funny, and there are several highly unlikely scenes. Also, it wraps up a little too neatly-Roy's classmates join him to protest the construction project, his father finds the missing environmental impact report, and the owls are saved. While Roy is a sympathetic protagonist, few of the other characters are well developed. Students looking for humorous, offbeat characters and situations will probably prefer Louis Sachar's Holes (Farrar, 1998) or books by Daniel Pinkwater.


The Boston Globe
"A wonderful tour de force."


The Miami Herald
"A rollicking, righteous story"


New York Daily News
"Offbeat, hilarious"


Chicago Tribune
"Gross, quirky"


St.Louis Post-Dispatch
"Laugh-out-loud"


The Horn Book Magazine
"Original and wacky"