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My Side of the Mountain Download Ë PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB Ñ 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 going all the way to the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York There he sets up house in a huge hoEvery 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 going all the way to the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York There he sets up house in a huge hollowed out tree with a falcon and a weasel for companions and his wits as his tool for survival In a spellbinding touching funny account Sam learns to live off the land and grows u. People this book was written in the late 50s and things were a bit different back then Trying to place it in the now does not work Yes there are many unbelievable parts but it is a children's fiction book not a survival guide This charming story brings me back to my youth and reading other George books Escaping the hustle and bustle of everyday life is something many of us imagine for a time I know I did judging from journals from when I was young Thinking it is bad or stupid because of its implausibilities means you have lost your imagination and probably have no idea what some kids think about perhaps it should not be forced on kids to read in school but classics that won awards are always fair game If you don't like them write a new story that will get awards And if you can't then don't complain The Newbery et al selection committee is awesome and well ualified and does an awesome job finding the top books out of hundreds or thousands published a yearSorry for the rant This book is lovely and accessible to many Keep when it was written in context and you should enjoy the day to day life of surviving on a mountain
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P a little in the process Blizzards hunters loneliness and fear all battle to drive Sam back to city life But his desire for freedom independence and adventure is stronger No reader will be immune to the compulsion to go right out and start whittling fishhooks and befriending raccoons Jean Craighead George author of than 80 children's books including the Newbery Medal winning Julie of the Wolves created another prizewinner with My Side. I think the best thing a survivalism book can do is help to redefine your connection to the natural world and your reliance on the human Unfortunately even reading this book as a child I found it to be too fantastical to be entirely enjoyable Though George trades in Paulsen's vomit for pleasant fancy this book at once made me want to go out and live such a free life and convinced me that such a thing would be impossibleI read many such books as a child and also experienced in television and film the way that life was supposed to surprise you with a sudden adventure So I took long walks I wandered the woods alone I called for spirits in the river I searched the earth for baby falcons to raise But I never found that magical friend that spirit that strange and mystical adventure Hell I never even found anyone interesting to talk toThe sad thing is that I still search still look and hope and every time two lifelong friends meet by chance at a brook I feel betrayed The fantasy of art has even in its most minute dimensions been betrayed by sallow mundanitySo it seems again I fall to the doom of loving and hating books Loving the world they represent but hate failing to find it