Books in Kentucky Summers series

I pointed toward a figure that looked to be seven to eight feet tall crossing the field below us. It looked like a large hairy gorilla-like figure humped over and lumbering along. Several of the kids gasped when they finally saw it. The creature stopped and tilted his head to the sky and let out another bellowing cry, “Aah, ugh.” I got goose bumps up and down my arms. The hairs on my body stood on end. Susie grabbed my arm and buried her head into my forearm. In the last installment of the Kentucky Summers series, Tim Callahan has given us a story of excitement and compassion. The fall of 1962 and school is ready to begin. Uncle Morton is in the hospital, and the Wolf Pack is on their final mission—find James Ernest and Big Foot. A reunion, forty-three years later, brings back all your favorite characters to reminisce and maybe have one last adventure, revealing a secret Timmy has kept for all those years.

Not only did James Ernest hogtie the two men, but he preached to them after doing it. I felt he should have sung Amazing Grace to them, but I was in a hurry to get away just in case they had any friends who were out looking for them, which I strongly doubted. In Red River, Junior, and the Witch, the seventh novel in the Kentucky Summers series by Tim Callahan, the action takes place on the Red River in the summer of 1962. The Wolf Pack is on their summer adventure, canoeing Kentucky’s Red River, and they’ve invited Henry Junior to join them. The six boys and Coty are in for the canoe trip of their life. The boys encounter huge rapids, wildlife, dangerous men, weird meals, and a witch. So how do they come away as heroes? You’ll keep turning the pages until that fact is revealed. Red River, Junior, and the Witch is again filled with the humor, suspense, and the adventure that you’ve come to expect in a Tim Callahan novel. Come in and spend a spell with the Wolf Pack. They might share their possum stew with you.

"We were tied to the chairs again back to back. The three men spent an hour outside the cabin, discussing their plans. We could only catch bits and pieces of the conversation, nothing that we could piece together to tell us how long we had until the money was to be delivered. I sat there and wondered if they would really kill us if they didn’t get the money. I wondered if they would kill us even if they got the money. Here Susie and I were, being held hostage. I knew that my mom, Mamaw and Papaw, and Susie’s parents had to be worried sick. I knew that they were trying to figure out how to get money to pay for our safe return. I wondered what the Wolf Pack was doing. I wondered who was praying for us." Timmy and the Wolf Pack are back again, making the absolute most out of another Kentucky summer. In this fifth installment to the series, Tim and Susie are kidnapped right out of the front of Timmy’s mom’s store, and while the grown ups do their best to find them, it’s ultimately up to the Wolf Pack to figure out who took them and how to get them back. Timmy and Susie and the Bootleggers’ Revenge is filled to the brim with all the humor, mystery, suspense, and heartwarming community togetherness you’ve come to expect from author Tim Callahan. Reunite with Timmy, Susie, Mamaw, Papaw, James Ernest, and so many other wonderful Kentucky Summer characters you’ve come to love.