![]() ![]() Leaving the city with few possessions, he sets off on the adventure of a lifetime. ![]() But tired of urban living, he, with his parents’ knowledge, runs away to the Catskills Mountains, determined to live on the site of his great-grandparents’ old homestead. Her recent death was a blow to the field but happily it appears that some of her books will continue to live on long after she is gone.Ĭhildren’s Literature described the plot this way: “Young Sam Gribley lives a comfortable life in New York City. Jean Craighead George knew how to give the kids what they wanted. Before survival tales were their own middle grade literary genre, Ms. Later she’d write about a kid who did a bit better than she did. #77 My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (1959)Īs a child, Jean announced that she was running away from home, only to return after forty minutes. ![]()
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