My Side of the Mountain
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My Side of the Mountain (ISBN 0-14-034810-7) is a 1959 book by Jean Craighead George about wilderness survival. The book won the Newbery Honor Award and was adapted into a 1969 movie.
Set in the Catskill Mountains, the My Side of the Mountain tells the fictional account of how Sam Gribley survives with only a penknife, a ball of cord, 40$, and flint and steel in the wilderness of Upstate New York.
The movie was set in Ontario, Canada, although it was filmed in Knowlton, Quebec.
