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Summer of the Monkeys
Children's fiction
Summer of the Monkeys
280 pages · First published 1976
Fourteen-year-old Jay Berry Lee lives in the Ozarks and dreams of earning enough money to buy a pony and a rifle. When a circus train wreck leaves a troop of escaped monkeys in the surrounding woods, a reward for their capture seems like the perfect solution. Jay Berry quickly discovers that the monkeys are far cleverer than expected, turning each trapping scheme into comic frustration and occasional danger. Wilson Rawls combines rural adventure, humor, family warmth, and coming-of-age themes in a novel where a boy’s summer ambition gradually teaches him more about compassion than about getting what he wants.
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