A review by sudama
My Side of the Mountain Trilogy by Jean Craighead George

4.0

I have fond (though faint) memories of my all-time favorite teacher reading this to us in third grade, so I checked it out of the library to read to my son. It's often hard to tell when he's into something, because his mode of listening usually includes staring at a video game manual or another book. I knew this book about a young boy who runs away to survive by his wits -- gathering edible plants, building a shelter, trapping, and hunting with the aid of a trained falcon -- a year alone on his family's land in the Catskills was reaching my son when we were at a sushi restaurant and he ordered fish. Salmon skin, if I recall correctly. Until then, he'd been a vegetarian.