My Side of the Mountain

My Side of the Mountain1969

Genre: Adventure, Family
My Side of the Mountain is a children or young adult adventure novel written and illustrated by American writer Jean Craighead George published by E. P. Dutton in 1959. It features a boy who learns about courage, independence, and the need for compa… more »



Bando:
You know, you've done some amazing things here, Sam. Hollowed out a whole little world for yourself. I bet there's not another boy in the whole civilized world who's done anything like it.

Sam:
Yeah, but that's not why I came.

Miss Turner:
Why did you come, Sam?

Sam:
Well, I came because I thought the only way to know nature was to live with it. Like Thoreau. You know? And I came because of my experiments. I learned all about algae under the conditions of nature. And I learned about survival. And... I learned about myself.

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