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"Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest." -- The New York Times Book Review. Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods -- all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball o...

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Main Author: George, Jean Craighead, 1919-2012
Other Authors: Crouch, Michael (Michael Lockwood) (Narrator)
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Language:English
Published: New York : Listening Library (Audio), 2017.
Edition:Unabridged.
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Survival > Juvenile fiction.
Self-reliance > Juvenile fiction.
Mountain life > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:"Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest." -- The New York Times Book Review. Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods -- all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever.
Item Description:Unabridged.
Physical Description:1 online resource (4 audio files) : digital
Playing Time:04:36:12
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Audience:Text Difficulty 3 - Text Difficulty 4
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ISBN:9780525591313
Author Notes:Jean Craighead George was born on July 2, 1919 in Washington, D.C. She received degrees in English and science from Pennsylvania State University. She began her career as a reporter for the International News Service. In the 1940s she was a member of the White House press corps for The Washington Post.

During her lifetime, she wrote over 100 novels including My Side of the Mountain, which was a 1960 Newbery Honor Book, On the Far Side of the Mountain, Julie of the Wolves, which won the Newbery Medal, Julie, and Julie's Wolf Pack. She also wrote two guides to cooking with wild foods and an autobiography entitled Journey Inward. In 1991, she became the first winner of the School Library Media Section of the New York Library Association's Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature. She died on May 15, 2012 at the age of 92.

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