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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: 6803
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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My Side of the Mountain Review By Spencer Martin February 14, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
4 Stars
Ok, I am a 11 year old kid who is reading this book in class and I Love it! It is an absolute awesome book for nature lovers especially.
The story is about a boy named Sam gribley who tells his father one day that he is going to run away. His father doesn't think he will succeed and do it though. He does it. The book then tells how Sam survives in his Great Grandfather's land. It tells us this by saying what foods he eats, what friends he makes, and what his shelter is. Can Sam survive winter? Can he stay alone in the woods? Read and maybe buy this book to find out!
I highly recommend this book because it is a book about how you can survive in the nature and has a great main idea.
Genre: I think the genre of theis book is realistic fiction and adventure because it is very adventurous and could really happen.
 Book Worth Revisiting Later in Life February 11, 2007
I purchased a copy of Jean Craighead George's "My Side of the Mountain" for my son to read for a school project. One evening I picked it up to scan a few pages and found myself returning to my own childhood as I sat and read the whole book. The book was introduced to me in fourth grade and back then I would read it over and over.
The idea that a young boy could leave home and live in the forest and off of the land was amazing. For hours, I, and like-minded friends, would sit in the five-acres of woods and streams behind our homes and try to re-create Sam's animal traps, start fires with flint and steel and catch fish with whittled hooks.
This book is a classic. The original had dark charcoal drawings of Sam and his surroundings, making Sam anyboy. However, the copy I found for my son had been updated with the cover showing Sam with blond hair.
Also, as with so many other things, George has written sequels, many years after publishing the original. This is a children's classic that would have been better left alone, but one must always be greatful to George for having written it.
Highly reccomend this book for elementary school children and to adults trying to remember a time when the feeling that anything was possible seemed real.
Reviewed by Chris B. January 31, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Imagine moving away from your family to go to your great grandfathers land and live in the woods with just an ax, string, pen knife, flint and 40$. If you would like that lifestyle you should read "My side of the Mountain" with Sam Gribley.
In "My side of the Mountain" Jean Craighead George has written a great outdoor adventure when young Sam Gribley endured months and months in up state New York on his great grandfathers land.
In "My side of the Mountain" young Sam Gribley tries to prove his family wrong that he can run away to his great grandfathers homeland and he does. He also has a great experience while he is in the in the woods of up State New York.
In "My side of the Mountain" Sam Gribley captured a falcon when it was a very young. The thing is when Sam tried to get the falcon the mother falcon of course attacked him with her razor sharp talons she struck Sam's shoulder going extremely fast and Sam was in horrid pain but in the long run it was worth it. Sam trained her to hunt for him. Sam named her "Frightful". Without "Frightful he would have a big hunting problem Sam could still trap animals and eat them but with "Frightful" he would not be in good shape because "Frightful" got the majority of his food.
The story "My side of the Mountain" the main thing that Sam needed to have was knowledge of his surroundings. For example in the book if Sam didn't know about plants or how to catch and cook animals because if he didn't know how long to cook meat he could get very sick because it's not like he has a microwave that he can just punch in the time he needs for it to cook and if he messes up on making the food it's not like he can go to his cabinet and get food he will have to go out and hunt with "Frightful".
This fictional story "My side of the Mountain" is an informal and exiting story about Sam Gribley having to endure nature's glories and not so glorious things about nature. I would give this book a ten out of ten because I never wanted to put the book down. Over all "My side of the Mountain" was an awesome book.
My side of the Mountain January 31, 2007
Imagine moving away from your family to go to your great grandfathers land and live in the woods with just an ax, string, pen knife, flint and $[...]. If you would like that lifestyle you should read "My side of the Mountain" with Sam Gribley.
In "My side of the Mountain" Jean Craighead George has written a great outdoor adventure when young Sam Gribley endured months and months in up state New York on his great grandfathers land.
In "My side of the Mountain" young Sam Gribley tries to prove his family wrong that he can run away to his great grandfathers homeland and he does. He also has a great experience while he is in the in the woods of up State New York.
In "My side of the Mountain" Sam Gribley captured a falcon when it was a very young. The thing is when Sam tried to get the falcon the mother falcon of course attacked him with her razor sharp talons she struck Sam's shoulder going extremely fast and Sam was in horrid pain but in the long run it was worth it. Sam trained her to hunt for him. Sam named her "Frightful". Without "Frightful he would have a big hunting problem Sam could still trap animals and eat them but with "Frightful" he would not be in good shape because "Frightful" got the majority of his food.
The story "My side of the Mountain" the main thing that Sam needed to have was knowledge of his surroundings. For example in the book if Sam didn't know about plants or how to catch and cook animals because if he didn't know how long to cook meat he could get very sick because it's not like he has a microwave that he can just punch in the time he needs for it to cook and if he messes up on making the food it's not like he can go to his cabinet and get food he will have to go out and hunt with "Frightful".
This fictional story "My side of the Mountain" is an informal and exiting story about Sam Gribley having to endure nature's glories and not so glorious things about nature. I would give this book a ten out of ten because I never wanted to put the book down. Over all "My side of the Mountain" was an awesome book.
Mountain Adventure January 26, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A boy named Sam Gribley decided that he wanted to go live in the mountains, so he moved to the Catskill Mountains leaving his family far behind in New York City. He loved the outdoors so much that he created a house inside an Oak tree. The setting of this book is a beautiful mountain set upon a mountain chain in upstate New York during the summer months. Along the way, Sam meets wild animals including a falcon, which becomes his main companion.
In My Side of the Mountain, George creates a realistic setting that I find really descriptive and interesting. The main setting of the book is in the mountains during the summer and the boy will try to make it through the harsh winter months. I have been to the mountains, and throughout the winter it can be incredibly cold and windy. All over the area where the boy made his home they're huge trees that he made his home out of. Even though it seems that the boy is out in the middle of nowhere, hikers and vacationers still come to see the view. The animals in the story are realistic. Some of the animals include a weasel, some deer, and a raccoon. The falcon, whose name is Frightful, is an amazingly trained bird in which case he never flies far from the boy. The boy took Frightful out of its nest one day and has kept him ever since.
Last of all, I would recommend this book to any one out there who enjoys nature and learning the skills of survival. When I read this book I thought that is was a great book as well as exciting. I'm sure that if you read this book you will enjoy it as much as I did.
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