George, Jean Craighead <br/><br/>
My side of the mountain / 
written and illustrated by Jean Craighead George.  
 - New York :   Puffin Books,   c1988. 
 - 177 pages 
<br/><br/> ''An extraordinary book.. it will be read year after year'' -The Horn Book    Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in his family's crowded New York City apartment. So, armed with just the bare necessities-- a penknife, a ball of cord, some flint, and steel, and the clothes on his back- he runs away to the mountain. There, Sam must rely on his own ingenuity and the resources of the geat outdoors to survive-- and he discovers a side of himself he never knew existed.  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780142401118 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Self-reliance  Mountain life  Wilderness survival  Outdoor life  New York (State)--Catskill Mountains  Recluses  Survival (Title)