Summer+of+the+Monkeys

=I have changed the sections a little bit...take a minute to relook at the sections and make sure you have done everything needed. Don't forget to post your discussions on the actual section discussion area. :) Enjoy!!= =//__Summer of the Monkeys__ by Wilson Rawls//=

MONKEYS OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE STARING AT HIM!!

The last thing a fourteen-year-old boy expects to find along an Ozark river bottom is a tree full of monkeys. Jay Berry's grandpa had an explanation, of course-as he did for most things. The monkeys had escaped from a 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.

This novel, set in rural Oklahoma around the turn of the century, is a funny and heartwarming family story about a time and place when miracles were really the simplest things.

By Wilson Rawls Wilson Rawls was born on a small farm in the Ozarks. He spent his youth in the heart of the Cherokee nation, prowling the hills and river bottoms with his old bluetick hound-his only companion. His first writing was done with his fingers in the dust of the country roads and the sands along the river. He told his first stories to his dog, and it was not until his family moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma, and he could attend high school that he had access to real books.

==**//__Discussion Question: In the book, Jay Berry Lee makes the statement, "You know if a fellow can learn something through experience when he's a young boy he doesn't ever forget it." Your job today is to ask an adult family memeber to share with them something that they learned in their youth that they have never forgotten. Share these family stories here.__//**==