TY - BOOK AU - George,Jean Craighead TI - My side of the mountain T2 - Puffin modern classics SN - 9780142401118 U1 - 813.54 PY - 2004///, c1988 CY - New York PB - Puffin Books KW - Mountain life KW - Fiction KW - Self-reliance N1 - Lexile : 810L; Authors preface -- I hole up in a snowstorm -- I get started on this venture -- I find Gribley's farm -- I find many useful plants -- Old, old tree -- I meet one of my own kind and have a terrible time getting away -- King's provider -- What I did about the first man who was after me -- I learn to season my food -- How a door came to me -- Frightful learns her ABC's -- I find a real live man -- Autumn provides food and loneliness -- We all learn about Halloween -- I find out what to do with hunters -- Trouble begins -- I pile up wood and go on with winter -- I learnabout birds and people -- I have a good look and the beginning of my story's end -- I cooperate with the ending -- City comes to me N2 - A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship ER -