My Side of the Mountain

By: Jean Craighead George

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

A NEWBERY HONOR BOOK • OVER 4 MILLION COPIES SOLD • The defining childhood classic about a boy finding his own way in the wilderness—a nostalgic book for readers young and old who have ever wanted to run away from home.

“Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest.”—The New York Times Book Review

“An extraordinary book… It will be read year after year.”—The Horn Book

Twelve-year-old Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in his family’s crowded New York City apartment. One day—armed with just a penknife, a ball of red cord, forty dollars, some flint and steel, and the clothes on his back—he decides to run away to his grandfather’s abandoned farm in the Catskill Mountains, to live in the woods all by himself. There, Sam must rely on his own ingenuity and the resources of the great outdoors to survive, as he discovers a side of himself he never knew existed.

Teeming with hope, adventure, and a deep search for identity, My Side of the Mountain is a timeless classic for readers of all ages who have ever wondered what it would be like to live off the land.

American Library Association Notable Book • Hans Christian Andersen Award Honor Book • Lewis Carroll Shelf Award

A classic from my youth.

I revisit this book ever other year and it never fails to delight. If you haven't please check it out and share with a young adult in your life.

In the woods

So relaxing and fun to virtually be living in a tree, living off the land, friends of animals, and surviving well. Read this as a kid and now as an adult. Enjoyed the adventure thoroughly.

headline

we loved the story and i wish I had frightful. I loved how you showed us how to live in nature. and I'm love the birds and the people who came were nice.

Great book

This book my side of the mountain by gean craighead george is an amazing book That I have read more than one time i have read every book in this series and enjoyed all of them 5 stars

loved it

loved it I would recommend good book sad ending I love and recommend it