My Side of the Mountain

“I'm not a camper--I'm more what you'd call "indoorsy:--but when I read this book in fourth grade, it made me want to run away and live in a tree. It was a fun story, and sparked a lot of imaginative daydreams about living in the wild. I think it's perfect for older elementary school or middle school readers.”

“Such an enjoyable wilderness survival story, similar to Hatchet but without the intensity. This is more like the invented memoir of a young boy who tries his hand living alone in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York.”