Kiowa County Public Library District

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.

"Orphaned Heidi is sent to live with her grumpy grandfather in the Alps, but soon grows to love the mountains. When she is taken to Frankfurt, her homesickness and a new friendship with a disabled girl called Clara lead to an extraordinary turn of events"--

Isolated on her mountain, Amber meets and befriends a girl from the city who gives her the determination to learn to read and write.

This coming-of-age story about a boy and his falcon went on to win a Newbery Honor, and for the past forty years has enthralled and entertained generations of would-be Sam Gribleys.

A lonely boy is found and reared by a hermit in the wilderness of the Tennessee mountains in the 1880s.

Family members compose verses to the folk song "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain" to describe an expected visitor.