Book Review: My Side of the Mountain
...her a letter to say thank-you. * * * An excerpt. Sam’s first day with his baby hawk, Frightful: The food put the bird to sleep I watched her eyelids close from the bottom up, and her head quiver. The fuzzy body rocked, the tail spread to steady it, and the little duck hawk almost sighed as she sank into the leaves, sleep. I had lots of time. I was going to wait for the man to leave. So I stared at my bird, the beautiful details of the new feather...