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About This Book
Twelve-year-old Sam Gribley runs away from his crowded New York City apartment to live in the Catskill Mountains on his great-grandfather's abandoned land. He hollows out a hemlock tree for shelter, trains a peregrine falcon, and lives off the land through all four seasons.
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