My Side of the Mountain/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Values Dissonance: For all Sam's talk of respecting the wilderness, most environmentalists nowadays would not look kindly on the scene where he describes wanting a falcon so badly that he steals a wild one from the nest. What exactly would he have done with the bird when he returned to the city?
    • The sequel has this as a major plot point. Thankfully, the bird survives.