this shit was hermit propaganda for children

fuck man i read this book like a hundred times when i was a kid

I still think about this book and how nice it would be to go live in a tree

and it worked. still find his lifestyle ideal

I occasionally get enraged remembering a conversation from this book where an adult assumes the main character lives in the next town over despite him clearly and concisely stating that he lives on the goddamn mountain

Created by the big hermit lobby

Read it in.... 5th grade (or 6th). Pretty sure it was 5th.

worked on me

YUP That and Hatchet, and Island of the Blue Dolphins... I was READY

100% thought I could and would eventually run away and live inside of a tree after reading this as a kid (I secretly still do)

I had a copy of this as a kid and you're so right