My Side of the Mountain (Puffin Modern Classics)
by Jean Craighead George
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Author: Jean Craighead GeorgeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-04-12
ISBN: 0142401110
Number of pages: 192
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Publisher: Puffin Books
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Book Review: great book.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a good, adventure-type book. Once you start reading it you can't stop until your reach the end. It also teahes you some things you might need to know for survival in the woods by yourself. You might want this if your going to run away to the woods with nobody but yourself.
Summary of My Side of the Mountain (Puffin Modern Classics)
Terribly unhappy in his family's crowded New York City apartment, Sam Gribley runs away to the solitude-and danger-of the mountains, where he finds a side of himself he never knew.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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