The Mountain Series - Book 1
My Side of the Mountain
“How wonderful that this 1959 classic is now an audiobook. Narrator Michael Crouch introduces seventeen-year-old New York City resident Sam Gribley as he relocates to the Catskill Mountains…Crouch deftly embraces the speech patterns and vocabulary of the day and warmly describes the atmospheric setting. Since Sam is usually alone, there’s little dialogue, but his thoughts and endearing conversations with the wildlife he meets sound genuine. Listeners will particularly enjoy sharing time with Frightful, the young peregrine falcon Sam adopts, and trains to retrieve food. It’s inspiring to hear how Sam adapts to nature and uses it to clothe, warm, and feed himself and his menagerie. Vivid descriptions of the seasons, storms, and animals offer a constant ‘you are there’ feel.”
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A Newbery Honor Book
Winner of Newbery Honor Book
Winner of Newbery Honor Book
“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
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