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Title: Long Awaited Dissappointment
Review: My Side of the Mountain has been an annual event for me for many years. I was thrilled to find out that the author had finally come out with a sequel. But like many sequels it was a dissappointment. I hated it. I wish I had never read it. Jean takes the idealistic '50's Boy Scout viewpoint and weighs it down with '90's political correct/eco-freak/feminist babble. She preaches green peace style conservation and responsibility when what made the first book so good was escape from the hyper-sensitive viewpoints of today's "enviromentalists". Talk about innocence lost. I am a biologist and understand conservation and wise use of natural resourses but this felt more like a propaganda pamphlet than a young adult book. I plan on letting my kids read the first book but won't tell them there's a sequel.
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