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My Side of the Mountain is a middle-grade adventure novel written and illustrated by American writer Jean Craighead George published by E. P. Dutton in 1959. [1] It features a boy who learns courage, independence, and the need for companionship while attempting to live in the Catskill Mountains of New York State.
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Jean Carolyn Craighead George (July 2, 1919 – May 15, 2012) was an American writer of more than one hundred books for children and young adults, including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves and Newbery runner-up My Side of the Mountain. [1] Common themes in George's works are the environment and the natural world.
The story revolves around twelve-year-old Sam Gribley (Teddy Eccles), a devotee of Thoreau (as many were back in the 1960s [2] [3]).He decides to leave Toronto to spend time alone in the Canadian woods to see if he can make it as a self-sufficient spirit after his parents' promised summer trip doesn't pan out.
One of my students asked me how old Sam is. I'm in Japan and don't have a copy handy. Other readers may wonder the same thing. I think he is 12 when he leaves home. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.1.97.94 05:06, 11 December 2009 (UTC) Sam is 14 when he leaves home as said in the article.
She was born in Covina, California, to Mary Ethel (McKillop) and John Richard Stafford, a Western pulp writer.As a youth Stafford attended the University of Colorado Boulder and, with friend James Robert Hightower, won a one-year fellowship to study philology at the University of Heidelberg from 1936 to 1937.
"By His Bootstraps" is a 20,000 word science fiction novella by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It plays with some of the inherent paradoxes that would be caused by time travel . The story was published in the October 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction under the pen name Anson MacDonald; the same issue has " Common Sense " under ...
Mountain Interval is a 1916 poetry collection written by American poet Robert Frost. ... Robert. Mountain Interval ... This page was last edited on 11 April 2024, ...