Roy Eberhardt

Roy Eberhardt is the hero of the best-selling novel Hoot by Carl Hiaasen and the film adaptation of the same name.

Hoot
Roy Eberhardt is a middle school student who has moved from his native Montana to Florida with his parents. He starts out having a hard time adapting to this new environment, but all that's about to change when he catches sight of a mysterious running boy and learns that he cares for the animals in the woods. It takes a while for Roy to understand that the boy, named Mullet Fingers, is trying to protect a colony of burrowing owls from being destroyed, since their nest is located on a construction site where a pancake house is about to be set up. Matching wits with Dana Matherson, the school bully, and Chuck Muckle, an evil business tycoon, and teaming up with Mullet Fingers and his feisty sister, Beatrice, Roy stands up to protect the owls and stop the construction

Trivia

 * Roy is played by Logan Lerman in the film adaptation.