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| My Side of the Mountain Trilogy (My Side of the Mountain / On the Far Side of the Mountain / Frightful's Mountain) | 
| Author: Jean Craighead George
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 14310
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 628
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.6 x 2.1
ISBN: 0525462694
EAN: 9780525462699
ASIN: 0525462694
Publication Date: October 23, 2000
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| Customer Reviews:
 I loved the first book as a kid December 17, 2007
I loved this book as a kid. I hope my nephew's love it too. Can't wait for them to finish it so I can reread the first book and read the other
two.. Thanks for the fast shipping. Your awesome
Not Just for Children July 19, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As former wildlife rehabilitators of birds of prey, my wife & I now retirement age, completely enjoyed the narative and are amazed at the the accuracy and depth of JCG's facts. Truely a heart warming trilogy in todays not so warm world. JCG has been given a great gift to combine depth of knowledge and story telling. We are fans of hers and now have read many of her books.
I mentioned this book to the very best rehabber we know & she was so happy to have the title as she had forgotten it & read it when she was 11. Said today it has influenced her life ever since, a very highly educated abd sophisticated woman who lives in the woods. As a child, her father would drop them off in the Adirondack woods, with meger supplies, a section map etc, and then pick them up at a pre-arranged spot 3 or more days later. This went on till she was sixteen. Now she will purchase & pass this trilogy on to her grandson. Ractions from others to whom I have introduced this series include, from a VP of a multi billion corp. who was fascinated with it, finished it quickly and gave it to the son of his "Boss" and wants his report back. etc etc.
 An OK book April 18, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
i thought that this book was an ok book. i didn't like it that much because i kinda got bored with it. some of the good parts were when Frightful caught an animal. it didn't have enough action in it. If you like books that aren't thrilling and and books that are calm then this is your kind of book!! but if you like action and books that make you think than i suggest the Artemis Fowell series!!!
 An Adventure April 18, 2007
My Side of the mountain is about a boy who is sick of the city and runs away to the Catskill mountains. He learns that he can survive all year in a hollowed out tree. I liked this book because it had some adventure. i also liked how Sam trained Frithtful to hunt. another thing that i liked was how Bando made whistles for music.
A Young Boy's Walden December 14, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Granted, there are still some places like the one imagined by Craighead in My Side of the Mountain, and there are some boys and girls out there who still explore in the woods, some parents who allow their kids to spend the night out there, but this book, like Thoreau's, is much more important for kids (and parents) who have no real wilderness in their lives. Unlike so many young persons' books these days, which try so hard to help readers through difficult times (divorce, peer-pressure, death of loved ones) in predictable, heavy-handed ways, the premise of this book is not dramatic. The young narrator is just tired of the city (not in any committed political way), and more importantly tired of living in a large family in a small space. When he says he's going to run away to find the spot where his grandfather once had a farm in the mountains, his family ignores him--his father dares him to do it, and he takes the dare. Granted, there's a bit of drama here and there (his capture and training of the young falcon is more than improbable), but mostly the book is content to chronicle the boy's slow growth--not from some tenderfoot to a fully capable survivor (the story of "Hatchet")--but from a boy who knows something about nature from books to a boy who figures out, through his experience of nature, something new about himself and his relation to other people and the world. Here Craighead is above all PATIENT--able to chronicle the pace of a life that puts into question much of what kids and their parents might consider "normal" interests, or attachments, or social behavior. The best experience of this book won't drive kids to try their hand at survival in the woods (though that wouldn't be such a bad thing for many)--rather, it will show young boys and girls that there are other ways of seeing nature and the world than those they see on the Nature channel. The second in this series, The Other Side of the Mountain, is different--more of a detective story in the woods--but equally a good read.
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