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Read HOOT Together, Florida!
Floridians are reading Carl Hiaasen’s Newbery Award-winning book HOOT this spring, and the West Florida Regional Library wants you to join in the fun.
This year’s Read Together, Florida book HOOT will appeal to readers of all ages. Adults will enjoy the distinctive style and wacky characters they’ve come to love in Hiaasen’s previous books Sick Puppy, Lucky You, Stormy Weather and Basket Case. Kids (grades four and up) will enjoy the story of middle-schooler Roy Eberhardt’s and his unlikely comrades’ battle to save a colony of burrowing owls.
Pensacolians are encouraged to read HOOT in March and then come to the Pensacola Public Library, 200 W. Gregory St., from 4:30 to 6:30 pm on Sunday, April 3 for HOOT-inspired activities. Besides a lively discussion of the book, participants will also meet owls from the Wildlife Sanctuary of Northwest Florida, make protest posters like the ones Roy’s classmates made, and eat pancakes that will be even better than the ones from Mother Paula’s All-American House of Pancakes (and no owls will be harmed)!
The event is open to children and adults. Families are encouraged to read HOOT together and then attend the event together. HOOT is recommended for grades four through adult.
Read Together, Florida is a statewide – one book/one state – literacy project designed to encourage all Floridians to read and share the same book, enhancing the love of reading.
This literacy project is managed by Governor Jeb Bush’s Family Literacy Initiative, a program of the nonprofit Volunteer Florida Foundation.
For more information, contact the Pensacola Public Library at 436-5060.
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