Throughout the story we also hear of wild creatures and natural occurrences, a gentle lecture on the ways of the mountain that never feels preachy or forced. However, Sam has been doing his research, and although things are hard at first, he begins to make progress as he harvests food and other necessities from the wilderness. Sam’s parents tell him he’s welcome to try, but obviously expect him to be back home as soon as he gets a little hungry. Sam Gribley is a teen when he decides to run away from his home – a crowded apartment full of younger siblings in New York City – and try to live off the land in the Catskills, where his family owns, but has never visited, his grandfather’s old abandoned farm. I was very drawn to My Side of the Mountain because of George’s conversational tone, aided by Sam’s first-person narrative, and accompanied by sketches of things like plants, snares, and handmade fishhooks.
Like Wild Trek, My Side of the Mountain is about someone living off the land, all alone – a topic that has always fascinated me, and continues to do so. Another beloved classic from that stack was the first book in this series, My Side of the Mountain. Some of them, like Jim Kjelgaard’s Wild Trek, went on to become lifelong favorites. When I was a kid, I found some of my dad’s childhood books stuck in a closet in his old bedroom at my grandparents’ house.
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