My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
	List Price:   $17.20 Unit Price:   $13.76 You Save:   $3.44 (20%) ISBN-10:   0613359909 ISBN-13:   9780613359900 Publisher:   Turtleback Books Category:   Beginning Readers Pub. Date:   January 2001 Format:   Library Binding Grades:   3 to 6
Awards
1977  Georgia Children's Picture StoryBook Award  Winner!  1980  Colorado Children's Book Award  Winner!  1983  Golden Sower Award  Winner!  1984  Children's Picture StoryBook Award (USA)  Winner!  1988  Flicker Tale Children's Book Award  Nominee/Honoree
Subjects
CHILDREN'S FICTION
Description/Notes
A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains; including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his realization that he needs human companionship. A young boy runs away from home to live in the wild on what used to be his grandfather's farm. 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.