I can’t remember the name of the author or the title of the book but the most overrated book I ever read was the one about the boy who ran away from home with his dog and lived in the woods for about a year. They made it into a TV movie I think or maybe it was a short-lived TV series. Anyway, I had to give up reading it about halfway through because the chapter that had the boy removing engorged ticks from the dog and them using them to catch fish in a pond just totally disgusted me.
My Side of the Mountain?