A book for young readers. It involves new kids, bullies, alligators, eco-warriors, pancakes, and pint-sized owls. A hilarious Floridian adventure! Roy Eberhardt is the new kid--again. This time around it's Trace Middle School in humid Coconut Grove, Florida. But it's still the same old routine: table by himself at lunch, no real friends, and thick-headed bullies like Dana Matherson pushing him around. But if it wasn't for Dana Matherson mashing his face against the school bus window that one day, he might never have seen the tow-headed running boy. And if he had never seen the running boy, he might never have met tall, tough, bully-beating Beatrice. And if he had never met Beatrice, he might never have discovered the burrowing owls living in the lot on the corner of East Oriole Avenue. And if he had never discovered the owls, he probably would have missed out on the adventure of a lifetime. Apparently, bullies do serve a greater purpose in the scope of the universe. Because if it wasn't for Dana Matherson...
不上學的赤腳男孩究竟要跑向何處？
佛羅里達的黑夜到底埋藏了多少祕密？
剛從蒙大拿轉學到佛羅里達的羅伊，在校車上慘遭校園惡霸唐納的欺負。不過，他卻很感激唐納。要不是唐納把他的臉壓扁在窗戶上，他就不會看到那個在街上跑步的赤腳男孩。
一連幾天，同樣的時間，羅伊都看到了那個赤腳跑步的男孩。一天早上，在好奇心的驅使下，他中途下車，偷偷跟蹤那個男孩，跑過幾個街區，跑進灌木叢，男孩卻消失得無影無蹤。一個上學時間在街上溜達的男孩，一定有什麼祕密。
接著鎮上發生了一連串離奇的事件，鬆餅屋預定地遭人惡意破壞，先是拔掉測量桿、在巡邏警車上噴黑漆、臨時廁所裡出現短吻鱷魚、百步蛇咬傷看管工地的洛威拿犬……這些事件和赤腳男孩有關嗎？他究竟是什麼來歷？當羅伊知道赤腳男孩的真正目的，他決定要挺身而出，助對方一臂之力。
By Carl Hiaasen, Hardcover, 324 Pages, Traditional Chinese Character, 8.3"x6.25"
