My Side of the Mountain Trilogy (My Side of the Mountain / On the Far Side of the Mountain / Frightful's Mountain)
by Jean Craighead George
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Author: Jean Craighead GeorgeEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-10-23
ISBN: 0525462694
Number of pages: 628
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
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Book Review: Woo Hoo! GREAT book for boys beginning to read
Summary: 5 Stars
I am terribly excited by this because I was home one day with the 8 year old and I had gotten him this (because it was one of my favorite books from my childhood, and the only one with a male hero) so we started to read it together but put it away for a while.
Well... after he was finished having Harry Potter read to him (the series) and his mom was trying to get him to read some things independently she walks into his room one day and he was about three chapters into the book! So he read the WHOLE thing - the first book he read on his own!! One of the cuter parts was that as he was reading it he kept trying to get his mom to use the recipes in the book :) (that, and he kept referring to the book as "the trilogy".)
Really a great book to have around for when a boy is ready to read.
PS. not that it isn't also a good book for girls, but there are many other good books out there written with young female heroines for that age range (I would recommend the Westing Game and The mixed up files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler) whereas there is a very limited selection of books that are interesting and well written with young male heros.
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Summary of My Side of the Mountain Trilogy (My Side of the Mountain / On the Far Side of the Mountain / Frightful's Mountain)
In 1959, Jean Craighead George published My Side of the Mountain. This coming-of-age story about a boy and his falcon went on to win a Newbery Honor, and for the past forty years has enthralled and entertained generations of would-be Sam Gribleys. The two books that followed--On the Far Side of the Mountain and Frightful's Mountain--were equally extraordinary. Now all three books are available in one deluxe yet affordable volume for veteran devotees and brand-new fans alike.Asked why the writing of the My Side of the Mountain trilogy took Jean Craighead George more than 40 years, she responds, "My mother disapproved of sequels. 'Those are trashy books,' she told me when I was a child. So I grew up and did not write them.
"But kids are wiser than adults, I learned. Letters kept arriving from schools and homes, saying, 'We want to know more about Sam, Frightful, and the wilderness.' 'Sequels,' they said, 'are important.' They were right."
Now, all three of George's remarkable novels about the wilderness adventures of young Sam Gribley and his falcon, Frightful, are available in one handsome volume. In My Side of the Mountain, a Newbery Honor Book, Sam leaves home to fend for himself in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. For a year he lives in a hollowed-out tree, befriending animals and depending on his wits for survival. In the sequel, On the Far Side of the Mountain, Sam's sister has now joined him, and his falcon is confiscated by a conservation officer. Frightful's Mountain is an interesting departure for George. Written from the perspective of Frightful the falcon, the concluding novel in the trilogy follows her efforts to learn to depend on her own instincts in a world crawling with dangers.
Jean Craighead George is the beloved author of more than 80 books, including the Newbery Medal winner, Julie of the Wolves. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter
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