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    2016-09-21  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    Roy Eberhardt recently moved from Montana to Miami, and he’s not happy about the change. He misses his old home, and the meanest bully of all, Dana Matherson, has taken a dislike to him. On the school bus, Roy catches a glimpse of* a barefoot kid racing down the sidewalk. When he sees the boy a second time, he punches out Dana and runs after the kid called Mullet Fingers.

    A mysterious vandal* is sabotaging* the site of a future pancake restaurant, pulling up stakes, spray-painting a cop car, and setting loose a bunch of cottonmouths*. Things don’t improve when Roy meets the boy’s sister, Beatrice, a tall girl with muscles and teeth of steel. Beatrice warns Roy to stay away from Mullet Fingers, but Roy is already quite involved.

    Mullet Fingers is on a one-boy campaign to save the tiny burrowing owls that live in the construction site — and will be buried alive in their burrows when the construction begins. Roy begins walking the line between law and outlaw, right and wrong, trying to save Mullet Fingers and the tiny owls.

    Roy is the kind of kid that readers love instantly — he’s a quiet Charlie Brown who comes out of his shell* for a good cause. Unlike many other adult authors who write a book for kids, Carl Hiaasen doesn’t dumb it down.

    Elements like a B-movie actress, an ambitious* if well-meaning cop (the one whose car was painted), a baby alligator* in a porta potty and a bunch of sparkling cottonmouths with taped mouths add a sense of surreality to the book.

    Kids will like Roy and the tactics he uses for the owls, and adults will like the thought-provoking* storyline and humor.

    (SD-Agencies)

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