Billy Beechum and the Hooticat's Secret

When his father is sent overseas with his National Guard unit, fourth grader Billy Beechum misses him so much he mopes in his room for days. Famous children's author Samuel Jenkins moves into the house next door, and the elderly, wheelchair-bound writer talks Billy and his friends into joining him in an adventure to capture the hooticat, a mysterious creature with a secret, that appears only one nightevery hundred years.

Will Billy and his friends capture the hooticat and learn its centuries-old secret, or will it elude them and keep the secret to itself for another hundred years?