This book is set in Florida, and focuses on environmental issues, like the majority of Haissen's books. The main character, Roy Eberhardt, sees a mysterious running boy while being tormented by the school bus bully. Roy from that moment makes it his mission to find and talk to that boy. Another day on the bus, Roy spots he boy again while being strangled by the same bully, Dana. In his excitement to follow the boy, he punches Dana in the nose, bumps into a girl boarding the bus and chases the boy through a golf course, where Roy is promptly knocked unconscious by a golf ball to the head. When he is found and brought to school, he is punished for punching Dana, and breaking his nose. At lunch, Roy is cornered by the girl he bumped into on the bus, Beatrice, who warns him to stop bothering the running boy. Roy does not, however, and he persistently searches for the boy, finally having a brief encounter while blindfolded. Meanwhile, Officer David Delinko and foreman Curley have been trying to stop a series of vandalisms at the construction site of Mother Paula's Pancake house, unsuccessfully. Beatrice decides to enlist Roy's help with the running boy, who happens to be her runaway step-brother, Mullet Fingers. They show Roy that Mullet Fingers had been vandalizing the construction site because they were going to bulldoze over some burrowing owls illegally. Roy is enlisted by Mullet Fingers to help with the mission. Roy, Mullet Fingers, and Beatrice all work together with the children of Roy's school, peacefully protesting the construction at the ground breaking ceremony. They are successful and the zone is dedicated to be a reserve for the owls.
Next I will review Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine.
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