02183cam a2200373 i 4500 2250039344 TxAuBib 20250519120000.0 870929s1988||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 87027556 9780525443926 lib. bdg. 0525443924 lib. bdg. 9780525443957 pbk. 0525443959 pbk. 9780525463467 0525463461 (OCoLC)16871840 TxAuBib rda George, Jean Craighead. My side of the mountain [Book] / written and illustrated by Jean Craighead George. New York : Dutton, [1988] ©1988. xii, 177 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Author's preface -- I hole up in a snowstorm -- I get started on this venture -- I find Gribley's farm -- I find many useful plants -- This old, old tree -- I meet one of my own kind and have a terrible time getting away -- The king's provider -- What I did about the man who was after me -- I learn to season my food -- How a door came to me -- Frightful learns her ABC's -- I find a real live man -- The autumn provides food and loneliness -- We all learn about Halloween -- I find out what to do with hunters -- Trouble begins -- I pile up wood and go on with winter -- I learn about birds and people -- I have a good look at winter and find spring in the snow -- The spring in the winter and the beginning of my story's end -- I cooperate with the ending -- The city comes to me. A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship. 20250519. Wilderness survival Juvenile fiction. Self-reliance Juvenile fiction. Mountain life Juvenile fiction. Fiction. lcgft