Summer of the Monkeys
Summer of the Monkeys
Author: Wilson Rawls
Desc: The last thing a fourteen-year-old boy expects to find along an old Ozark river bottom is a tree full of monkeys. Jay Berry Lee's grandpa had an explanation of course--as he did for most things. The monkeys had escaped from a traveling circus and there was a handsome reward in store for anyone who could catch them. Grandpa said there wasn't any animal that couldn't be caught somehow and Jay Berry started out believing him . . . But by the end of the "summer of the monkeys " Jay Berry Lee had learned a lot more than he ever bargained for--and not just about monkeys. He learned about faith and wishes coming true and knowing what it is you really want. He even learned a little about growing up . . . This novel set in rural Oklahoma around the turn of the century is a heart-warming family story--full of rich detail and delightful characters--about a time and place when miracles were really the simplest of things...