My Side of the Mountain
Sam Gribley is tired of living in a crowded New York City apartment with his dad,mom and 8 brothers and sisters, so he runs away looking for his Great-grandfather Gribley's land in the Catskill Mountain wilderness. The Gribley land had not been inhabited by any Gribley's for around 100 years. Sam hitched rides trying to get to the farm. Sam thought he prepared himself for this adventure by reading books in the New York City public library about how to survive on the land. No one in his family took his plans seriously though. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he relied on his own ingenuity and the resources of the land to survive.Sam arrived in the Catskill's and went to the Delhi library to find information about Gribley's farm. A nice librarian found information that was very old, this helped Sam find the farm. This was the beginning of Sam's great adventure. On his great-grandfather's farm he learns how to survive. At first he struggles to make a fire, then he had trouble whittling wooden fishing hooks to catch fish, but he ended up perfecting the hooks and catching a few fish. He quickly realizes that he nee
After Frightful became trained she was able to catch many small animals and provide them with food. The stories became huge rumors, newspapermen were poking around the woods trying to find the wild boy. Sam also struggles with providing himself with clothing. Fortunately for him, a hunter killed a deer in the woods and Sam got to it first and hid it. Sam decided to give Matt an account of his survival in the forest for his newspaper article, this cleared up all the rumors of the wild boy theory. His tree home consists of a hidden door made of deerskin, a bed and a fireplace to keep him warn in winter. The falcon can then help him catch food. He finally found Sam and ended up spending Christmas in the forest with Sam, Bando, and Frightful. He finally spots a falcon and decides to catch one of it's babies in the hopes that he can train the falcon. Later Sam came back for it and eventually made himself a pair of pants from its hide along with eating its meat. People come to the forest and are all around him, but they never discover him in his tree home. Here he builds himself a little hidden home in the forest. Bando stays with Sam for the summer and told him he would return at Christmas time. Needless to say, they were very proud of Sam for finding great-grandfather Gribley's farm, for surviving in the forest on his own, and for bringing them all out of the city.
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