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1olivia-love
Ott 2, 2011, 2:59 pm

Fiction

Plot : A teenage boy is in a plane crash, the pilot dies, and he is taken in my an old man who lives in a cabin in the wilderness. (I believe his name starts with an O) They end up living together for a long time and they develop a friendship.

When you think it was written or when you read it (10 years ago; about 1970...): I would guess around the 60's or 70's. The book looked kinda old. I read it around 2005 when I was 10 or 11.

Book's intended audience: Juvenile

Anything else you remember about the title, author, illustrations, cover, characters, setting, binding, or size of book: As I said, there's only two characters (except for the beginning before the pilot died), I read it in paperback, and it was about the size of a normal grade school novel.

2olivia-love
Ott 2, 2011, 3:15 pm

And also I recall the old man singing "big rock candy mountain" somewhere in the book.

3bookel
Modificato: Ott 2, 2011, 4:34 pm

This doesn't sound quite right...?

High Country Adventure by Marian
Rumsey (1967). Plane-wrecked in the Canadian backwoods, a city boy learns to appreciate the beauty of the outdoors, even as he and the pilot struggle to outwit the natural perils of the wilderness. 160 p.
New York : William Morrow and Company, 1967. Weekly Reader Children's Book Club edition. Hardcover.

4bookel
Ott 2, 2011, 5:07 pm

Someone here asked the same question; I am thinking it is still unsolved.

5bookel
Ott 2, 2011, 6:01 pm

Ahah!!!! I have found it!

6bookel
Ott 2, 2011, 6:03 pm

Canyon winter by Walt Morey
202 p. New York : E.P. Dutton, 1972. ISBN 0525274103
Stranded for six months in the Rocky Mountains following an airplane crash, a 15-year-old boy is taken in by an old hermit who teaches him the ways of the wilderness.

Found on WorldCat.org
Search results for 'kw:hermit crash' > '1950..1979' > 'Book' > 'Fiction' > 'English' > 'Juvenile'

7olivia-love
Ott 2, 2011, 8:20 pm

YES!! It's canyon winter!! Thank you so much!