Most Popular Books by Wilson Rawls

Contains: [Where the Red Fern Grows](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL465360W/Where_the_Red_Fern_Grows) Connections: The pine of Akoya (Japanese folk tale) / retold by Rafe Martin -- The Christmas hunt (short story) / by Borden Deal -- Him (novel extract) from Bambi: a life in the woods / by Felix Salten -- Hunting yarns / compiled by Kemp P. Battle -- Mart Moody's bird dog (tall tale) / retold by Robert Bethke -- Davy Crockett meets his match (tall tale) -- Paul Bunyan's cornstalk (tall tale) / retold by Harold Courlander -- Momma's store (autobiography extract) from I know why the caged bird sings / by Maya Angelou -- Princess (short story) / by Nicholasa Mohr -- The saddest day the summer had (short story) / by Dick Perry -- Bloody murder (novel extract) from The original adventures of Hank the cowdog / by John R. Erickson -- Wilson Rawls (biographical sketch).

Summer of the Monkeys is about a young boy who finds a bunch of monkeys and seeks help from his grandfather to catch them. Along the way he learns that there is a reward for catching the monkeys and it is enough money for him to buy just what he wants.