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| My Side of the Mountain (Puffin Modern Classics) | 
| Author: Jean Craighead George
Publisher: Puffin Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  512 reviews
Sales Rank: 6130
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0142401110
EAN: 9780142401118
ASIN: 0142401110
Publication Date: April 12, 2004
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| Customer Reviews:
 As good as ever, 14 years later. May 2, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I read this for the first time 14 years ago and loved it so much that as a result I kept the elemetary school's wild food cookbook constantly checked out for my last three years there. Over time as I turned to Sci-fi and fantasy novels (many of which ironically have to deal with herbalists) I sort of forgot about it until I rediscovered it last week. I was in the last art Book Arts class before exams and I was discussing the idea behind my exam project which focuses on rosemary. After some discussion I realized that my love of herbs, and essentially mountain life in general, stems from the first time I read My Side of the Mountain. Directly after that class, I drove to the local book store, picked up a copy and readit cover to cover. Like others have said, this is indeed a fantastic book that stays with you. I highly recommend it for "children" of all ages, if they are enchanted with the concept of grinding their own acorn flour, all the better.
A Great Outdoor Adventure! April 18, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The book I read was My Side of the Mountain. Jean Craighead George is the author. My Side of the Mountain is about a teenager who is sick of living in the city. He lives in an apartment with his family in New York City but is unhappy there, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains where his grandfather has some property. He tries to survive against the brutal winter and ice covered trees, hunters during the deer season, and tries not to be seen by hikers and campers. The setting in the book is in the 1960's or 70's and takes place in New York. The main character in the story is named Sam Gribley. Sam is adventurous and does not like to be kept inside. He can make tools out of stuff you can find in the woods. He is also very brave and courageous for going and staying in the woods alone.
This book is realistic fiction. The moral of the story is if you want something, do something about it. I highly recommend this book for others because it is great how the author explains everything. Sam makes different tools out of twigs and grass and the author explains every detail. The book is also very adventurous and exciting. If you want a book where you hate to stop reading, then this is a great book!
Online Book Review April 18, 2007
My Side of the Mountain is truly a different book. For one thing, it tells recpipes, Sam's journal entres and just has some down right unique characters! (such as frightful or the Barron weasle) I also thought it was neat that even though Sam was "alone" in the woods he met many people.
This book was also very inspirational. Not to run away but to let kids know that they need their family but can do some things on there own.
I would reccommend this story to kids ages 9-16 because it lets your mind wander.This story is awsome!
GREAT BOOK April 11, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Do you like adventure? Well if you do this is a book for you. It is about a boy that ran away from home because his house was too crowded. He went to live in the mountains. If you read this book you can find out if he stays alive. You also can learn how to make a fire out of scrap wood. Read and find out if pepole will find him in the mountains or does he stay there forever.This book is recommended for pepole that like adventure.
By Wyatt
Sam leaves home alone, 5th grader review March 26, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Leaving home to go live in the mountains would be hard during bad weather conditions. It is the Gribley family tradition to leave home. Every child decides to leave home and go live in the wilderness until their family comes to get them. A child who is unsuccessful must return home with the family.
A boy named Sam Gribley went to live in the Catskill Mountains and stayed there for ten years. During those ten years, he finds out how to live in the wilderness by looking for a library to learn what to eat and what not to eat. While living in the mountains, he also looked for the Gribley's farm. He finds the farm by going to the library and asking the librarian, Ms.Turner to help him find ancient maps about the Gribley beech. He succeeds in finding the Gribley Farm covered in moss. He also found the fence surrounding it so that other hunters will not shoot animals inside his territory. Sam makes traps to catch rabbits and other animals. One day he sees a duck hawk flying around in the air, and Sam sees a nest where the Hawk was flying around. Sam goes to the cliff and climbs up to the nest and finds three little baby hawks. The mother saw him and started poking into him with her beak. Sam took one of the babies and went to a flat place on the cliff and found some edges and climbed down with the baby hawk rolled up in his sweater. He got down, set down on a boulder and named the hawk Frightful. Sam trained Frightful for the next 4 months and taught Frightful how to hunt, and catch his meat on a stick that Sam threw up in the air for Frightful's training.
This Silver Newbery Honor story tells the reader about how to live in the wilderness. Sam has mastered all the skills that he needs to live in the wilderness. For Sam, living in the wilderness was easier than living at home in a crowded New York City apartment.
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