Union Library Movie Day!
(Students entering 6th grade and up)
Wednesday, June 11th, 12:00 noon – 1:45 pm
(Library is open 11:00 am – 2:00pm)
"EVERYBODY in AMERICA WANTS TO LIVE IN FLORIDA...EVERYBODY BUT ME," says Roy
Eberhard, a 14 year-old who's moved around too much, this time leaving Montana thanks to
his dad's job transfer. Roy (played well by Logan Lerman) is the new kid-- in humid
fictitious Coconut Grove, Florida. But it's still the same routine: by himself at lunch, no
friends, and thick-head, thick-necked bullies pushing him around. But if not for the bully
mashing his face against the school bus window that one day, he might never have seen the
barefoot running boy, who only goes by the handle "Mullet Fingers (Cody Linley) a blond
streak, faster than anybody. And if he had never seen the running boy, he might never have
met bully-beating Beatrice (played by Brie Larson). And if he had never met Beatrice, he
might never have discovered the burrowing owls living in a nearby lot. And if not for the
owls, he probably would have missed out quite an adventure. Hoot is the story of an
ecological mystery, with a Florida setting and pro-environment, anti-development message
made up of endangered miniature owls, heartless developers scheduled to be built over
their burrows, and the owls' unlikely allies--three middle school kids determined to beat the
system, getting grown-up attention and save some owls.