The Junior Readers Series is designed to encourage reading for pleasure and to meet the supplementary reading needs of upper primary school learners. Wide and repeated reading of books in the series should enable the learners to automatically improve their written as well as spoken English. 

The Boys in Kakamega is the continuation of Jimmi Makotsi's earlier story, Misa the Precious Cow. Edward finally goes to visit with his cousins in Kakamega. But the holiday turns out to be full of adventures and dangerous surprises. The boys encounter a member of a band of organised criminals. Is there anything they can do to have this gangster and his deadly friends arrested?