Hoot

Dana Matherson welcomes Roy Eberhardt to Coconut Cove, Florida, by smushing his face against the school bus window. While waiting for Dana to let go, Roy catches sight of a barefoot boy racing at top speed through backyards. Roy’s determination to find the "running boy" eventually gets him involved in a fight to prevent the site of a future pancake house-home to burrowing owls-from being developed.