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My side of the mountain / written and illustrated by Jean Craighead George.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Puffin modern classicsPublication details: New York : Puffin Books, 2004.Edition: Puffin Modern Classics edDescription: xiv, 177 pages : illustrations ; 18 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0142401110
  • 9780142401118
  • 9781439516072
  • 1439516073
Subject(s):
Contents:
Authors preface -- I hole up in a snowstorm -- I get started on this venture -- I find Gribley's farm -- I find many useful plants -- Old, old tree -- I meet one of my own kind and have a terrible time getting away -- King's provider -- What I did about the first man who was after me -- I learn to season my food -- How a door came to me -- Frightful learns her ABC's -- I find a real live man -- Autumn provides food and loneliness -- We all learn about Halloween -- I find out what to do with hunters -- Trouble begins -- I pile up wood and go on with winter -- I learn about birds and people -- I have a good look and the beginning of my story's end -- I cooperate with the ending -- City comes to me.
Awards:
  • Newbery Honor Book, 1960.
Summary: 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 ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's Fiction George Jean Cra M1 Checked out 05/20/2024 33111011057342
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Fiction George Jean Cra M1 Checked out 05/31/2024 33111011277312
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Fiction George Jean Cra M1 Checked out 05/29/2024 33111008764546
Total holds: 4

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

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 ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.

"A Puffin book."

Authors preface -- I hole up in a snowstorm -- I get started on this venture -- I find Gribley's farm -- I find many useful plants -- Old, old tree -- I meet one of my own kind and have a terrible time getting away -- King's provider -- What I did about the first man who was after me -- I learn to season my food -- How a door came to me -- Frightful learns her ABC's -- I find a real live man -- Autumn provides food and loneliness -- We all learn about Halloween -- I find out what to do with hunters -- Trouble begins -- I pile up wood and go on with winter -- I learn about birds and people -- I have a good look and the beginning of my story's end -- I cooperate with the ending -- City comes to me.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.2 6.0 64.

Newbery Honor Book, 1960.

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