Summer of the Monkeys.

RAWLS, Wilson.

$975.00

Item Number: 128142

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976.

First edition of this award-winning novel by the author of Where the Red Fern Grows. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Sincerely, Wilson Rawls.” Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket illustration by William Maughan. Jacket typography by Lewis Friedman.

Set in rural Oklahoma, Summer of the Monkeys follows the story of 14-year-old Jay Berry Lee, who, one day, while looking for their lost milk cow, discovers monkeys in a nearby river bottom. Visiting his grandfather's store, he learns that they have escaped from a traveling circus, which has offered a vast reward for their capture: $100 for the chief monkey, "Jimbo", and $2 each for the others. After making multiple unsuccessful attempts to capture the monkey, he takes the advice of the circus and befriends Jimbo, soon after which a fierce storm frightens the monkeys into accompanying him into captivity, and he quickly returns them to the circus for his reward. The novel was the winner of the William Allen White Book Award and the California Young Reader Medal.