My Side of the Mountain

by George, Jean Craighead (Author); George, Jean Craighead (artist/illustrator)

• ISBN13: 9780140348101
• ISBN10: 0140348107
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-08-01
• Publisher: Puffin

Summary

Terribly unhappy in his family's crowded New York City apartment, Sam Gribley runs away to the solitude-and danger-of the mountains, where he finds a side of himself he never knew.

Table of Contents

Author's Preface	p. xi
I Hole Up in a Snowstorm	p. 3
I Get Started on This Venture	p. 9
I Find Gribley's Farm	p. 20
I Find Many Useful Plants	p. 25
The Old, Old Tree	p. 28
I Meet One of My Own Kind and Have a Terrible Time Getting Away	p. 35
The King's Provider	p. 41
What I Did About the First Man Who Was After Me	p. 46
I Learn to Season My Food	p. 50
How a Door Came to Me	p. 54
Frightful Learns Her ABC's	p. 58
I Find a Real Live Man	p. 68
The Autumn Provides Food and Loneliness	p. 85
We All Learn About Halloween	p. 93
I Find Out What to Do with Hunters	p. 101
Trouble Begins	p. 107
I Pile Up Wood and Go on with Winter	p. 112
I Learn About Birds and People	p. 116
I Have a Good Look at Winter and Find Spring in the Snow	p. 131
The Spring in the Winter and the Beginning of My Story's End	p. 148
I Cooperate with the Ending	p. 161
The City Comes to Me	p. 172
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