ABOUT THIS BOOK

Monkeys Out In The Middle Of Nowhere Staring At Him!



A tree full of monkeys the last thing fourteen-year-old Jay Berry Lee thought he'd find on one of his treks through Oklahoma's Cherokee Ozarks. Jay learns from his grandfather that the monkeys have escaped from a circus and there is a big reward for anyone who finds them. He knows how much his family needs the money. Jay is determined to catch the monkeys. It's a summer of thrills and dangers no one will ever forget.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Wilson Rawls grew up on a small farm in the Ozark Mountains of Oklahoma. There were no schools where he lived so his mother taught Rawls and his sisters how to read and write. He says that reading the book The Call of the Wild changed his life and gave him the notion that he would like to grow up to write a book like it. He shared his dream with his father, and his father gave him the encouraging advice, "Son, a man can do anything he sets out to do, if he doesn't give up." Rawls never forgot his father's words, and went on to create two novels about his boyhood that have become modern classics.


From the Trade Paperback edition.


AWARDS

WINNER 1982 - California Young Reader Medal
NOMINEE 1985 - Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award
WINNER 1980 - Minnesota Maud Heart Lovelace Award
WINNER 1979 - Kansas William White Award
WINNER 1979 - Oklahoma Sequoyah Children's Book Award
WINNER 1979 - Wisconsin Golden Archer Book Award