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Books like Hoot

12 books with a reading profile close to Hoot by Carl Hiaasen. Practical, outward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.

1

Letters from Father Christmas

by J.R.R. Tolkien, Baillie Tolkien

Also clear-cut · entertainment, narrative

Every December between 1920 and 1943, J.R.R.
2

The Whipping Boy

by Sid Fleischman

Also practical and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative

Prince Brat is a spoiled heir who receives no punishment for his constant mischief; instead, the palace employs Jemmy, an orphaned street urchin, to take every lash on the prince’s behalf.
3

Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

by Bill Bryson

Also clear-cut · entertainment, narrative

Bill Bryson retraces a backpacking trip he took across Europe decades earlier, beginning in the frozen outskirts of Hammerfest and ending in the chaotic streets of Istanbul.
4

Strega Nona

by Tomie dePaola

Also practical and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative

Strega Nona, the resident healer of a small Italian village, hires a clumsy assistant named Big Anthony to help with her household chores.
5

Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

by Rick Riordan

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative

In this illustrated compendium, Percy Jackson provides a firsthand account of the Greek creation myth and the origins of the Olympians.
6

The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

by Bill Watterson

Also clear-cut · entertainment, narrative

This anthology collects the early installments of Bill Watterson’s comic strip, featuring a hyper-imaginative six-year-old boy named Calvin and his stuffed tiger, Hobbes.
7

Schooled

by Gordon Korman

Also practical and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative

Cap Anderson was raised by his grandmother Rain on a commune called Garland, where children grew their own food, played guitar and called adults by first names.
8

The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

by Bill Bryson

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative

Twenty years after his first tour of Britain, Bill Bryson returns to traverse the island along a route he names the Bryson Line, stretching from Bognor Regis to Cape Wrath.
9

Gangsta Granny

by David Walliams

Also practical and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative

Ben is eleven, bored and stuck every Friday night at his grandmother's house, where he has to play Scrabble and eat cabbage soup.
10

Calico Joe

by John Grisham

Also practical and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative

Set in the summer of 1973, this narrative follows Joe Castle, a rookie for the Chicago Cubs who begins his career with a record-breaking hitting streak.
11

Ford County

by John Grisham

Also practical and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative

John Grisham's only story collection gathers seven tales set in and around Clanton, Mississippi, the county seat of his first novel A Time to Kill.
12

The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

by Bill Watterson

Also practical and clear-cut · entertainment, narrative

This collection compiles a decade of comic strips featuring the adventures of six-year-old Calvin and his stuffed tiger, Hobbes.

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