From Yearling:
Newbery Honor-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author Carl Hiaasen's beloved Hoot delivers an adventure full of new kids, bullies, alligators, eco-warriors, pancakes, and pint-sized owls.
Everybody loves Mother Paula's pancakes. Everybody, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered owls that live on the building site of the new restaurant. Can the awkward new kid and his feral friend prank the pancake people out of town? Or is the owls' fate cemented in pancake batter?