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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?

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Mike McNair received a B.S. degree in English Education from Oakland City University and a M.S. degree in Counselor Education from Northern Illinois University. His forty years in education include thirty years as a school guidance counselor. He wrote Mike's World humor column for nine years and is a field editor for Our Wisconsin Magazine. Billy Beechum and the Hooticat's Secret is the first book in the Billy Beechum trilogy. Billy Beechum and the Redheaded Bully and Billy Beechum and Paul Revere's Surprise complete the series. His other books include A Distant Summer, a coming-of-age novel; Tales from Mike's World, a humor book; and Sammy the Shivering Snowblower, a picture book about a snowblower that hates cold weather. Mike and his wife Nancy live in Wisconsin. Matthew Hughes is a fine arts graduate of California State University at Long Beach and makes his home in Lakewood, California where he works as a freelance illustrator and art instructor. He has worked as a freelance illustrator on projects ranging from info-graphics and T-shirt designs to educational apps, and print materials for elementary schools and churches. Matthew is exited to celebrate his first published book. Prior to the Billy Beechum series, Matthew also illustrated Joseph's Cradle, The Gift of Trees, and If You Swallow That Seed, through 4RV Publishing.

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