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Title	:	My Side of the Mountain (Mountain #1)
Author	:	Jean Craighead George
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	April 12th 2004 by Puffin Books (first published 1959)
Categories	:	Fiction. Young Adult. Childrens. Classics. Adventure. Survival. Middle Grade

My Side of the Mountain (Mountain #1) Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

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Every kid thinks about running away at one point or another; few get farther than the end of the block. Young Sam Gribley gets to the end of the block and keeps going--all the way to the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. There he sets up house in a huge hollowed-out tree, with a falcon and a weasel for companions and his wits as his tool for survival. In a spellbinding, touching, funny account, Sam learns to live off the land, and grows up a little in the process. Blizzards, hunters, loneliness, and fear all battle to drive Sam back to city life. But his desire for freedom, independence, and adventure is stronger. No reader will be immune to the compulsion to go right out and start whittling fishhooks and befriending raccoons.

Jean Craighead George, author of more than 80 children's books, including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves, created another prizewinner with My Side of the Mountain--a Newbery Honor Book, an ALA Notable Book, and a Hans Christian Andersen Award Honor Book. Astonishingly, she wrote its sequel, On the Far Side of the Mountain, 30 years later, and a decade after that penned the final book in the trilogy, Frightful's Mountain, told from the falcon's point of view. George has no doubt shaped generations of young readers with her outdoor adventures of the mind and spirit. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter

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Original Title:	My Side of the Mountain
ISBN:	0142401110 (ISBN13: 9780142401118)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Mountain #1
Characters:	Sam Gribley
Setting:	New York State(United States) New York City, New York(United States) Catskill Mountains, New York(United States)
Literary Awards:	Newbery Medal Nominee (1960), Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1965), George C. Stone Center for Children's Books Recognition of Merit Award (1969), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (1961)

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1. When Sam held frightful and he listens to her little heartbeat. I like that passage because its meaningful and was special. I also like the description. 2. 1. Why did Sam runaway in the first place? 2. Why did Sam live in a tree and not a cave? 3. When Sams family comes to the woods why doesnt Sam hide? 3. This book is about survival and another book I have read was warriors and that is about living out in the wild too. 4. it was amazing with the details and drawings .I liked this book

I saw the movie as a kid in school, but I never read this book. I remember liking this story of the movie. Reading this as an adult is a bit of a weird experience. I know Jean wanted to make it possible for Sam to be able to live in the woods for a year, but let's face it, what parent or parents are going to let their kid run away and not try and find them. It's 4 months before the father comes looking to make sure he at least wouldn't freeze to death and have food. The mother doesn't do

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.........Why do they make so many survival stories for children, and then force us to read them in school?There are so many other wonderful genres that are not about overcoming the elements and proving to yourself that you can accomplish anything.I would argue that the same message can be found in a lot of literature that doesn't require me to read about how some kid survived in the woods for X amount of years/months/whatever.I can't even remember the particular details of

Ive always liked survival books, and this one was a calm and thoughtful one. I liked it quite a bit.

A recent recommendation of this book reminded me that I read this book many moons ago. I even wrote a book report on it back in Middle School. I remember drawing a picture of the main character in an outdoor setting for the cover of the report. What is funny is remembering writing book reports back then and they felt like a big deal. But, the books were usually under 200 pages and the reports not quite as long as some of the reviews I now write on Goodreads every few days. But, they were such a

Hey Folks! This one's for kids. You were expecting Muir?

My 9-year-old son and I read this book together and now we are writing a review. He thought the book was really good, and so did I. "It was pretty cool how he got a falcon," my son says. It's exciting and fascinating to read the adventures of feisty, live-off-the-land Sam Gribley, who fulfills his boyhood dream of running away from his crowded New York City family life. He lives in a hollowed out hemlock, uses turtle shells for bowls, and digs tubers from the ground, catches fish in the stream,