![]() ![]() The next day, Sam searches for his grandfather's farm and fails to find it. But his survival skills are incomplete, and he is unable to build a fire. Sam enters the forest near the town, builds a tent out of hemlock evergreen tree branches, and catches five trout in a nearby stream. Realizing his son will run away from home no matter what he does, Sam's father permits him to go to Delhi as long as Sam lets people in the town know that he is staying at the farm. ![]() The second chapter opens with Sam Gribley remembering how he came to dislike living in New York City how he learned of his grandfather's abandoned farm near Delhi, New York how he learned wilderness survival skills by reading a book at the New York City Public Library and about his trip to the small town of Delhi using $40 he earned by selling magazine subscriptions. Roughly the first 80 percent of the novel is Sam's reminiscences during a snowstorm about how he came to be in a home made out of a hollowed-out tree, while the remainder of the novel is a traditional linear narrative about what happens after the snowstorm. The reader meets Frightful, Sam's pet peregrine falcon, and The Baron, a weasel that Sam befriends. He decides to run away to his great-grandfather's abandoned farm in the Catskill Mountains to live in the wilderness. The book is about Sam Gribley, a 15-year-old boy who intensely dislikes living in his parents' cramped New York City apartment with his eight brothers and sisters. ![]()
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