Fourteen-year-old Jay Berry Lee spends his summer trying to catch a group of monkeys that have escaped from a circus into Oklahoma's Cherokee Ozarks. In the late 1800's, a fourteen-year-old Ozark mountain boy spends the summer trying to recapture monkeys escaped from a traveling circus. Fourteen-year-old Jay tries to recover a group of wily monkeys escaped from a circus train in the hopes the reward will buy him the gun and pony he has so long wanted.
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