Book about a boy surviving in a forest with animal friends [duplicate]

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I do not remember much detail about this book my mother once read to me when I was little. What I do remember is that the protagonist was a boy surviving in a forest. He made his home out of a big tree which he hollowed out. There was a long winter. He had a bunch of animal friends, and I think one was a hawk or a falcon. I think he grew up in the woods if I remember correctly. I think he saved the forest from hunters or something.

I'm not sure; it was like 13 years ago that I heard it, but it has been on my mind. Any suggestions would help. I very vaguely remember the book cover; if I were to see it again, I could tell that it was the book.

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A quick Google search lead me to the book My Side of the Mountain. Could that be the book you meant?

The book is about Sam Gribley, a 14-year-old boy who intensely dislikes living in his parents' cramped New York City apartment with his eight brothers and sisters. He decides to run away to his great-grandfather's abandoned farm in the Catskill Mountains to live in the wilderness. The reader meets Frightful, Sam's pet peregrine falcon, and The Baron, a weasel that Sam befriends. 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.