by Jean Craighead George
Another from NPR's Backseat Book Club list. I was reading through What's that Book on reddit and someone posted about a book where a kid lives in the forest in a burned out tree. Another poster identified the book as My Side of the Mountain. That description made me want to finally read the book. ...
I really needed a win after starting (and giving up on) 3 separate books so when I picked up My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George I felt pretty confident considering it was a Newberry Honor winner. The introduction made me laugh because it was all about the author's experience running aw...
A great coming-of-age tale
I don't understand why this book received so many awards. I thought it was so completely unrealistic.The book is about a boy who runs away from home and decides to live in the woods on his own. Now I have read and enjoyed books of people living in the wilderness. Hatchet by Gary Paulson was one of t...
I found the book to be too unbelievable. I think I missed out having not read it as a younger reader. I probably would have liked it more, but at this point in my life I can't believe a young boy of 10 would be about to handle all of these challenges so easily.
I thought this a rather odd book, but in the end we all rather enjoyed it.
This was one of my favorite books when I was young. I'm sure I read it five or six hundred times. The main character, Sam, runs away from New York City to live on his family's historic farmland in the Catskills. He has decided to live "off the land," and after doing research on just how to do that (...
My sister raved about this book. My niece raved about this book. I now see why.Sam decides he is tired of living with his big family in a tiny New York City apartment and he ups and leaves for a family farm in the wild. Amazingly, he is able to find food and water and shelter for himself and to keep...
Goodness knows how many times I've read this book, but I love it every time. It always reminds me of the first time I read it as a little girl. It never inspired me to actually run away and live in a tree, but I loved thinking about it.
This is one of the first books I remember falling in love with. My teacher read it to us, and then I had to take it out of the library again and again. I was fascinated with the thought that a boy could live on his own in the wilderness. The most fascinating part to me at that time was the hollowed ...
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