HootieI don't think my dad planned to spend his last spring and summer on our farm raising a baby owl. But life, as it will, presented him this rare opportunity. Dad willingly stepped up to the full-time charge of raising, teaching, documenting, and finally releasing a gorgeous Barred Owl he named Hootie.Inspired by true events, Hootie is a rite of passage story that follows the journeys of an orphaned eight-year-old boy, Mason Classon, a displaced owl named Hootie, and my dad, Jim Odom, who bes