This is the book I did the original book talk for. It's by Jean Craighead George. She has written over 100 books for youth. She was awarded the Newberry Medal for another of her books, Julie of the Wolves. She grew up in a family of naturalists and she wrote this book putting that knowledge to good use. When she was little she dreamed of running away from home and living out in the woods. This book is a fulfilllment of her long ago dream and for others who may have had a similar dream.
The book is about a teenage boy named Sam Gribley who ranaway from New York City and his time out in the woods of New York State over a several months time span. It describes how he caught food, trapped animals, used natural resources around him to make clothes, utensils, housing, and more. It is a great book for middle school aged students. I read it to my son in 4th grade and he enjoyed it as well. He is a real life Sam who likes to go out to streams to catch crawdaddies and bugs, and so on.
You can apply it to science of course for the naturalist aspect, but also to literacy for the writing style, colloquialisms, for social studies to discuss the differences from New York City where he ranaway from and compare it to the woods where he lived for almost a year.
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