My Side of the Mountain

by George, Jean Craighead (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780141312422
• ISBN10: 0141312424
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: National Geographic School Pub

Summary

Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods-all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever. "An extraordinary book . . . It will be read year after year." -The Horn Book

Author Biography

Jean Craighead George is the author of more than eighty books, including two more books about Sam and Frightful: On the Far Side of the Mountain and Frightful's Mountain. Ms. George received a Newbery Honor for My Side of the Mountain, the Newbery Medal for Julie of the Wolves, and three additional awards recognizing the body of her work, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award.

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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