My Side of the Mountain
by Jean Craighead George
Should I read this?
appears in Nature, For 10 Year Olds, and Fiction.
Every kid thinks about running away at one point or another; few get farther than the end of the block. Young Sam Gribley gets to the end of the block and keeps goingall the way to the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. There he sets up house in a huge hollowedout tree, with a falcon and a weasel for companions and his wits as his tool for ...
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appears in Nature, For 10 Year Olds, and Fiction.
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