My side of the mountain / George, Jean Craighead

Young Sam Gribley leaves New York City and spends a year living by himself in a remote area of the Catskill Mountains.

My Side of the Mountain,is the unique adventure of thirteen,-year-old Sam Gribley. Sam's hero is naturalist poet Henry David Thoreau, so Sam writes a note for his parents, packs up and leaves home for the challege of wilderness living. Realizing his dream, Sam feeds himself, builds a makeshift home and learns to live in harmony with nature--miles from civilization.

This is a unique and exciting first person account of a modern boy's adventurous experiment in complete self-sufficiency. Quoting excerpts from his own diary, Sam Gribley recounts in detail his experiences, his emotions and reactions, his minute observations of the weather and the plant and animal life during the changing seasons of a year he spends all by himself in a remote area of the Catskill Mountains.

Sam Gribley, a nature loving boy who grows tired of city life and runs away to live off the land.