Hoot Owl Shares the Dawn won Honorable Mention in the
2005 Independent Publishers Book Awards.
2005 Independent Publishers Book Awards.
by Jennifer Pratt French
In this heartwarming, family oriented adventure, an Anglo-Paiute Indian teen, Johnny B. Falcon, angry at his life's misfortunes runs away from his oppressive home at the Moapa Indian Reservation, desperate to find a normal life. "I feel like I'm the last jagged piece of a jigsaw puzzle lost forever."
With his poor self-image, Johnny hops a cattle truck with his adventures taking him through Nevada to Las Vegas, Dayspring and beyond. He meets a beautiful girl, Lisa, but all seems lost when Johnny has to learn life's lessons the hard way, breaks the law and is sent to reform school. But ironically and fortunately, his association there with three good people: Dr. Lovejoy, Warden Peters and especially old Hoot Owl, the custodian, is about to help Johnny find worth in his own true self.
Hoot Owl is an 80 year old Indian, once himself an inmate, who empathizes with Johnny and brings about an awakening… after Johnny’s darkest night.
Hoot Owl shares with Johnny his wisdom, plus one surprising Indian secret that will change Johnny's, and also Lisa's, life forever.
