Summer of the Monkeys: Summary Summer of the monkeys is about a boy named Jay Berry, his dog rowdy, his sister Daisy, mama and papa. Mama's milk cow jumped the fence and went down in the bottoms. Jay Berry went to find her. When found her her milk bag was so full of milk that she could berly move, so he decided to go on the game trails in the bottoms. While he was there he herd a strange noise. He followed in Rowdies lead through the forest. When he got to where the sound was coming from he couldn't believe his eyes, there up in the tree was a monkey. He ran home and told his father