My Side of the Mountain - By Jean Craighead George  $12.95

A Newbery Honour book worth reading every year!  A boy, unhappy living in his city apartment, takes a penknife, twine, flint and steel and the clothes on his back, and runs away to the mountains.  Relying on his own ingenuity to survice, he discovers a side of himself he never knew existed.  RA 6 yrs - A, Rr 8 - 15 yrs   There are also sequels to this story - just ask.