The book ends with Sam's entire family coming up to
Gribley Farm to build a house and live with Sam.
When
Sam's mother reads the newspaper articles about Sam, which suggest that he is a boy
either without parents or a boy with terrible parents, she decides that she and the
family should move up to the mountain.
Though Sam is
somewhat resistant, he is also happy to have his family with him. He tries to talk his
father out of building a house on the mountain, saying that they could all live in trees
and hammocks. Sam's mother tells Sam that until he is eighteen, she will take care of
him as she feels she should, in a house, and when he comes of age he will be able to
choose for himself.
As his parents, they need to give him a home and
take care of him—at least until he turns eighteen. When that day comes, Sam can go off
and live however he wants.
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