My Side of the Mountain (Puffin Modern Classics)

I read My Side of the Mountain. This kid named Sam runs away from his home in New York because of the crowd. He looks and finds this stump and starts living in it. Then he finds this baby falcon and trains it to catch food and would fish. Sam wants to prove everyone wrong and remain out in the woods.

I liked the book. It is awesome. I would give it 4 stars because the ending was kind of boring.

I read this book for my summer reading assignment and I was happy I got to read it. The book is about a boy named Sam who runs away from his big family in New York. He runs away to the Catskill Mountains where he learns to survive. He builds a shelter out of a hallowed out tree, he fishes and hunts and makes a friend out a falcon he saves. It is interesting that he is so smart and can survive on his own in the wilderness. It was exciting to see a kid run away and actually be able to survive. Even though I would never do that it was fun to read about Sam's adventure. This review was written by John G.

I read this book over the summer for our summer reading project. The book is about Sam Gribley who runs away to the mountains. He learns to make a fire, what to eat and how to take care of himself. He makes new friends: Bando, Frightful, the Baron Weasel. I would recommend this book for everyone as it is easy to read, full of adventure, full of survival skills and nature. I like stories about animals and nature.
-Jason Meyer

My opinion of My Side of the Mountain is that it was one of the best books I have ever read.The recomendation age I think is good is for people 9 years old and up.One reason why I would recomend it for people 9 years of age and up is because their is a lot of adult vocabulary that younger kids wouldn't understand.If I could give this book a rating from 1-10 I would give it a 10 because the author really catches your attention,so you don't want to put the book down .

I remember as kid growing up first reading this book. It is one of those wonderful stories that has stayed with me my whole life. Growing up in the north I could really relate to the character and often dreamed of doing what he did. It is a wonderful story and now that my son is approaching the age at which I read this book, I would also like to share it with him. There are those few books like teachers that stay with a person they're whole life. I would recommend this book highly.

Do you like adventure? Well if you do this is a book for you. It is about a boy that ran away from home because his house was too crowded. He went to live in the mountains. If you read this book you can find out if he stays alive. You also can learn how to make a fire out of scrap wood. Read and find out if pepole will find him in the mountains or does he stay there forever.This book is recommended for pepole that like adventure.

By Wyatt

This is what I call a "must-read" for anyone. I first read it and read it many times over as a boy in a small town in Virginia. I must have checked it out 5 times at least. It is a story that has "inspired" my retirement dream of living on the side of a hill somewhere, far from the lights, sirens and bustle that make up so much of our lives today. It will be a joy to have the "wild things" as neighbors and be able to, even if just for a moment each day be able to be silent, to feel the energy of this planet flow around me. If you have a son ( not excluding daughters of course...but) if you have a boy you must expose him to this book. I bought a copy for mine when he was 10....He loved it!

Before I read this book I looked at nature a different way.I didn't know one survival tip. Now I know alot and I'm looking at nature as a place to live.It isn't just a free time book, it's a good to read anytime.It's better than the sequel, & most other books. It shows bravery, wisdom,inspiration and ,for me humor. I'm lucky this site has it because I can't find it anywere else.I recomend you read this book, it's crushal to your health!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know this review is one of many but I need to add my thoughts to it. This book was special to me when I was a boy. No matter what was happening in my life I FELT SAFE up on the Mt with the lead character. My boy is three but I cannot wait until he is old enough to hear and understand the book. I think that my love and appreciation for things outside "civilized lands) com partially from this work. Peace, Love, and Honor

My side of the Mountain is a story of a run away, thirteen-year-old boy, Sam, from New York who runs from his family to prove to his dad that he can survive in the wilderness. He also says that he can live and stay there in the Catskill Mountains where his great-grandfather use to live. He hitch-hikes over to the mountains and finds his great-grandfather's ranch. The house is so messed up he has to make himself a home in the forest. When he is making a house in a tree he steals a baby falcon from its mother and trains it like he always wanted to. Fearful, Sams pet falcon, goes up to be trained and very trustworthy to Sam. Sam finds himself with other people in the forest that come and go for sight seeing. Sam and Fearful learn to survive and stay protected from other dangerous animals and humans. Sam and Fearful have scary and wild adventure living at Catskill Mountains.
The book, My Side of the Mountain, was a very so-so book. It didn't have any high or low points it was just how to survive in the wilderness. Sam, the child in the book, knows how to survive, he knows how to do everything and he's only thirteen-years-old. There's not alot of action in the book but, alot of survival skill stuff. I don't think I would read the book again because it got boring after awhile. It was pretty much the same things throughout the whole story find food, stay warm, work on something, and sleep. That was really interesting (not really). I would recommend this book to thirteen-year-olds who like the wilderness. I give this book three stars for have a good plot but, not a very good story itself.

Although I am now a 41 year old neurosurgeon, this book had a profound influence on the course of my life. I say that with all sincerity, and do not mean to sound sappy. My teacher read it to us when I was in the 6th grade, in 1973. I read it again the next year. It so captured my imagination, that I begain reading everything I could on wilderness survival, which led me to a backpacking book. The latter further piqued my interest in the outdoors, and I joined the Boy Scouts, soley to go on a backpacking trip to northern New Mexico, to Philmont Scout Ranch. Afterward, I became an Eagle Scout, and a straight A student, eventually going to medical school, while working summers at Philmont. Today, I spend my time in the outdoors, practicing catch and release fly fishing. I plan to buy this for my kids, and someday take them to the Catskills for vacation, including a little fly fishing on the West Branch of the Delaware River, which runs through Delhi! If you are a kid, and have an imagination, this book will capture it. If you're as lucky as me, it might just change your life, too.

My favorite part of the book is that Sam lives on his own. I like this part because I like to hunt, fish and be outside in the woods. I didn't think there was a bad part in the book. I liked it all.

My favorite character is probably Sam because his likes the things I like. I recommend this book for 9,10,11,12,and older for this book. I think this because it is a longer book and you have to be able to understand parts in the book.

I just finished My Side of the Mountain! It was written by Jean George. I would give it 5 out of 5 stars! It's about a boy named Sam Gribley. He's living in the wild in the Catskills Mountains. Sam has a pet falcon named Frightful. Sam lives in a hollowed out tree. He meets a man named Bando and a reporter named Matt. In the end Sam's family comes to live with him. This is a great book, so I hope you can read it!

Reviewed by: Peter

I reccomend this book to anyone who loves the outdoors. This book describes the adventure of a young boy who risks it all and runs away from home to live, and survive, in the wilderness on his own. He uses his determination and his knowledge of nature to keep himself alive and comfortable on the side of one of the Catskill mountains. If Jean Craighead George didn't actually live this adventure I will be very surprised. A supurbly written book!

I read this book back when I was 10. I simply loved the book. In fact, all my brothers read it too, and they liked it just as much as I. I highly recommend this book, and I can hardly wait until I have a son around that age to give this book as a gift.
The book challenges your imagination and increases your desire to go outside and explore. In today's world where everything seems to involve television or computers, this book is the perfect solution to change that.

In "My Side of the Mountain," a boy named Sam Gribley runs away from home. He goes to his grandfather's old farm and hollows out a Hemlock tree. He survives by eating venison, different plants, and fish. During his adventure, he meets a few friends. One friend, named "Bando", met Sam while he was lost. He got to know Sam and then came back for. Christmas. To Sam's surprise, his dad came to visit during Christmas day. Bando and Sam's dad stayed for a few days, but soon had to leave. Bando had to go back to teaching and his dad had to go back to the house and feed the family. After they left, Sam stayed at the old Gribley farm for a few months during a snow/ice storm. His dad came back when the storm cleared and had some interesting news for Sam. You'll have to read to find out!!!!!
This was my favorite book because I like camping. It has a lot of interesting facts about camping such as: how to cook food, how to make a fishing hook, and how to make specific traps to catch game. I would defiantly recommend this book to people who camp. I believe that this book was good overall, but needs a few more climaxes.

Hey, Kathleen here telling you about this awesome book My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George that I give five stars. It is about this eleven year old boy named Sam Gribley. He is just sick and tired about living in his very crowded apartment building. He decides to run away to the Catskill Mountains to find his great-grandfathers land marked by the word "GRIBLEY" carved in to a tree. I just thought it was so intriguing to read about his strong will to survive and prove to everyone that yes, he can do it.

In the book he lives in a hallowed out hemlock tree that he burned out himself it was about six feet in diameter. He mad a bed of ash slats covered with deer skin and a fire place of clay and stone. He used notches in an aspen poll as a calendar. He eats nuts and berries and things made with acorn flour. For fishing he whittled a strong stick with a sharp point on one end and an angled cut at the other then took another strong stick and cut and angled end on it too. He tied both angled ends together with tree bark and had him self a fishing hook.

This book is only one of three and if you like it I highly recommend reading the others. They are: On the Far Side of the Mountain and Frightful's Mountain. I personally loved this book and i hope you can enjoy it too.

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.

I liked your book but I would not want to read it again.I would not read it again because it is boring.Some parts are boring and some parts are exciting in the book.The part that is boring in the book is when Frightful the falcon teaches another falcon to fly.That part was very boring.The part that is really exciting is when Sam the main character runs to the willderness.That part is really exciting.Your book was good but mabey not good enough.

I liked the book but the thing I disliked was why did Sam run off. This book is a great one if you like survivor stories. If you wanna know does it match up to other survior stories like Hatchet and The Cay I would pick the other ones first, but this book is still good. It is amazing how he takes simple plants like cattail roots and pennroyal and makes them his everyday dinner and tea. If you like survivor stories this is a book to consider.

I think that people who love exciting stories or stories that make your heart pound five times faster should read this book. Jean Craighead George's book circles around Sam Gribley, a boy who is tired of the city life. Sam leaves his home to go where his grandfather once lived. On his way he meets his new companion for life and deals with challenges that he never had to face in the city. This book earns a five star rating because it is mind-boggling and mysterious as well as daunting and delightful.

well the book starts out with a wonderful beginning that makes you want to find out what is next until you reach the end of the book. the plot is excellent about how a boy runs away to the catskill mountains from his home in new york with some string flint & steel and $40. Sam(the runaway boys' name) learns to live in the wild all by him self for a year and 4 months , in that time he has learned to cook and make a home out of nature.

This book was given to me and my class in Grade Six. In the beginning everyone thought it was going to be boring. Once we started to read it we realized it was great. After that our teacher took us outside to try and make some of the tools Sam used. Our class even spent the night in the woods to learn how Sam felt. We all had a terrific time and began to look at the book differently. It wasn't just make-believe, but realistic situations.

My Side of the Mountain is about a determined boy named Sam who thinks he can do anything. Only armed with flint and steel and a strong heart he get's ready to to test his survival skills in the Catskills. But will he survive with Winter creeping up on him?
This is a unrealistic book because everything goes Sam's way. For example, when he he makes his house NOTHING goes wrong. I also think this is unrealistic because there are hungry bears that would be attracted to his food. All in all I don't recommend this book.

My Side of the Mountian is an extraordinary book written by Jean Craighead George.A boy named Sam Gribley decided to run away from the city. Nobody believed he would do it, but he did. Sam built a house, found a stream, and found food. But Sam is lonely so he captures a peregrine falcon and trains it to get him food and so he's not so lonely. I recommend this book to anyone who likes adventure books. This book is as good as Hatchet.

"My Side of the Mountain" by: Jean Craighead George, is a very adventurous book. I had just finished reading it with my class this week. Sam Gribley, the main character, runs away from home, because he is tired of living with nine siblings. I enjoyed this book, because it grabs your attention throughout the whole story. If you are looking for a good book to read I recommend this one.

"My Side of the Mountain" is a great book!Two things I didn't like about it was: 1.it was to much of a school book AND 2.what sam did could never happen these days.parents would never let their kids run away.also,kids these days could never make a fire from flint and steel and kill rabbits and stuff and live with a falcon.it could NEVER happen!at least i couldn't do that!
besides those two things,it was a great book.go buy it!!

My Side of the Mountain is by Jean Craighead George. It is a great book. It is about a boy named Sam Gribley who runs away into the Catskills Mountains to live his own life. Sam finds a tree and makes his home out of it with an ax. After he built his home he climbs a cliff to get a falcon. Sam names the falcon Frightful. He gets the falcon because he wants to catch his food easier. If you like adventure this is the book to read.

This book is great! It's about a boy who runs away from New York City and lives in the Catskill Mountains.He only takes with him a penknife,a ball of cord,forty dollars,and some flint and steel.He has to survive the cold winter,the animals and other things.He has to learn how to catch food,cook food,train a falcon and much,much,more.I would recomend this fantasticly written book to you if you like adventure books.I like it alot!

My Side of the Mountain was an ok book.It would have been better if Sam the main character)wasn't such a superman.He could do anything, and he is only 11 years old!I would recomend this book to third graders to fifth graders.I probably wouldn't read it again, beacause it's sort of like this...
you read it once, it's pretty good, you read it twice, it gets a little boring, you read it three times,it's just really boring!!!

I found My Side of the Mountain to be a entertaining and a pretty well written book, or at least uniquely written. It is about a boy who decides to move off by himself to live in his ancestor's old farm that's over grown and been abandoned for several years. The book is told in first person perspective by the boy himself. This creates the effect of you, the reader, reading the boy's journal of what he has done during his stay on his ancestor's farm.
I did think that the book should have less detail, such as the recipe for acorn pancakes, and more detail on the action and events. The author seems more interested in writing how the boy changes during his stay in the wilderness than an actual entertain plot. It is an idea, but it makes the book less entertaining IMHO.
I also found the ending to be a bit lacking, and kind of dumb, though I won't spoil it for you here. I just think that the ending happened to suddenly and without very much detail and I think it needs to be explained a little bit more. But you need to read it to understand what I'm trying to tell you.
Over all, the book is a good read for kids and preteens, but high school students may find it boring. But I still recommend picking it up for something a little different.

I absolutely loved this story as a child. I still love this story. However, I was one of the boys who planned to copy the character in this book. If I had I probably would have ended up being dead. That said, I enjoyed many wonderful hours as a fifth grader contemplating my GREAT ADVENTURE! I spent hours poring over atlases and planning just where in my state's forests that I would be living and building my home. I read numerous books on survival in wilderness conditions. I practiced with a fire bow and drill. I even cleaned & tanned a fresh roadkill raccoon and made a hat out of it. The time I spent with this story and the dreams this story inspired for me are some of my fondest childhood memories.

My opinion of the book... There were some parts of it that wasn't making sense to me, but the rest was good.I recomend this book to people who like to read,and might have thought they wanted to run away.This book is a very specific,realistic,awsome book to read.When you pick up this book you can't put it down.From the time I picked up this book I felt it was a winner,and as a matter of fact it won a Newberry Honor Award.

I am currently a junior in high school, and this book stands as one of my all time favorites. I remember my Mom giving it to me when I was in elementary school, and me putting off reading it for the longest time because it seemed like a "boring book" however when I started to read the first few pages, I was hooked the rest of the way. Sam's adventures were such a great tale of freedom and self reliance while also serving as a representation of the self made man and the American dream. The sense of progress and accomplishment Sam gets when he completes a task is so satisfying and gives a good sense of progression. I know that I will be reading this to my children when I am older, and would recomend it to readers of any age.

I think that the book My Side of the Mountain is a very good book because it is adventurous,gives a lot of information about the wilderness and has a terrific ending to it!I would definietly recommend this book to a friend because it is a very interesting book about a boy who runs away from home.Just that summery alone is probably lurring you to buy the book instead of borrowing it from a library.

The book "My Side of the Mountain" was a lot of fun to read. This book was full of adventures and thrills. I would definately recommend this book to kids of my age group. I am twelve years old and I think other twelve year olds would relate to this book well. They would relate to this book because the boy in this book is 12 and 13 years old and what he does would be possible for other boys to do. This book is about a boy in a large family who ran away because his house is too crowded and no one believed that he would run away. Because his father doubted that he would run away for more than one day, he decided to run away. The characters name is Sam Gribley. He is from New York and ran away to the Catskill Mountains. He is away from home for about 9 months. While he was out there he met some people and went to different places on the way. I like how he was very independent and built a house in a tree. Sam is very talented because he was able to capture and train a falcon, catch his own food, make his own dishes and silverware and start fires. Some of the people he met in the mountain sound like people you would meet today. There was a character named Gambo who was a teacher, but who Sam thought was a theif. There was also a character named Matt, he was a boy who worked for the New York Gazette, and he was in the mountain looking for the "wild boy". The reason he was looking for Sam was because Sam had become famous and known as the "wild boy", because he was living in the mountain and no one knew who he was. One day he heard a voice calling his name and he knew at once that it was his father. He ran down the mountain to greet him, and his father said that he was famous in New York. His dad stayed with him for a couple of nights and shared with him what he had done. The ending was unexpected and you should read this book to find out!

Sam Gribley wants to run away from city life. He takes $40, some clothes, and some tools for building. Once he gets deep enough into the Catskill Mountains, he starts looking for his great-grandfather's old house. He finds the house's frame covered in mold. To have a place to stay warm before the weather changes, he burns out the trunk of a large hemlock and considers it "home." How does he survive with no fire, food or tools? Sam learns how to make a fire; he learns to make the tools from a man he met, he fishes, and traps animals for food. He captures a baby falcon and names her Frightful. He also meets new people. "Bando," an English professor who teaches in New York, "Mr. Jacket," a boy he meets in the woods, and Matt, an apprentice for the New Yorker.

If you haven't read one of Jean Craighead George's books, this is an excellent place to start. You will enjoy this book, plus there are two more books in this series. You can explore the wonders of nature when you read this book. My Side of the Mountain teaches kids why you shouldn't run away from home.

This book was fun to read because It was talking about a boy out in the trees and in the mountains. He fixed an old shelter outside the mountains,and he had some people coming into the shelter to stay there for one or two days with him. That boy was living out in the mountains and his family found him, and gave him food and other things to live in the mountains. And his dad fixed his shelter while his son went back.

My Side of the Mountain is a very catching book it had me jumping out of my seat the whole story!. It told you some facts about the wild and also it had a sad story of a kid living off the land. I learned alot of facts about the Catscill Mountains too. I think evrey outdoor kid should read this thrilling book. Its truth, fiction and wildlife mixed! This is truly one of my favorite books. READ THIS BOOK!

I really enjoyed reading "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George. I thought it was a great book. I liked all the adventures Sam whet through, and thought it was interesting. I enjoyed how his his family visted him at the end of the book. I also liked the sense of independence he developed. I recommend this book for anyone who likes a little risk and thrill.

I like this because it has a good story line and many supporting details to describe the main topic. I would recommend this book to older kids,but if you like the wilderness this book is for you. This is a good book because it is a realistic book and it's about a boy who runs away to the forest. I would read this book again because it is an exciting,fun, and in a way sad. My Side of the Mountain is a great book.

Sam runs away from home to the Catskill Mountains, because he isn�t happy with his eight brothers and sisters. He is too crowded. He burns out a tree to live in. He sees all the animals of the forest storing up food for the winter. He thinks he doesn�t have enough food to feed himself through the winter. Sam trains a duck hawk to catch food for him. Her name is Frightful. Sam meets an English teacher. He heard sirens before he met him, so he thought he was a bandit. He called him Bando. Bando brings Sam newspaper clippings. They are all about a wild boy living in the mountains surviving off of nuts, berries, and deer meat. Bando wants to make a guest house by burning out another tree, because he is always there visiting Sam and sleeping in his bed. Sam doesn�t like this idea but can�t say no to his best friend. Will Sam make a home that he is content with? Sam hears all these noises in the woods. The sound of snapping branches gets closer and closer. He thinks someone is coming to take him home. I recommend this book to all people who like nature and adventures, because it takes place in the mountains.

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The book My Side of the Mountain, is about a young boy named Sam Gribley who ran away from home to the old, family farm. He took with him a penknife, a ball of card, an ax, and some flint and steel. These are the only items he had to survive with. If you like the book Julie of the Wolves you should like this book too. This is a good book that kids and adults alike will surely enjoy.

The book I am reviewing is My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George. I gave this book five stars because it is a great book. This book is about a boy who runs away to the woods. He's tired of the city. Sam must rely on his skills to survive, especially in the winter months. If you want to find out what happens at the end, read this book. I would recommend this book to whoever likes adventure stories.

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My Side Of The Mountain was a great book. If anyone is a outdoor lover than this is definitely the book for you. The book shows you so much about what its like to live in the woods. I can't say that I didn't like any thing about it because being outside is my favorite thing to do. So if you love the woods or like a adventure this is the book for you. So read on!!!

I just finished Jean Craighead's book My Side Of The Mountain. It was an excellent book. It was about a kid who ran away from house in New York to live on his own. He is trying to find his grandfathers old land he used to own on the Catskill Mountains. If you like to read adventure books,and survival books then check this book out. In my opinion this is one of the best books i have read in a long time.

Dear Jean Craighead George,
My Side of the Mountain is a great book because it tells about how a boy named Sam lives in the wild.I like this book very much! On a scale of five, I would rate it a five. I would also like to read the sequels because if this book is good, then the sequels might also be good too. Hope to hear from you again! I really like your books and hope to find more books you wrote.

I am in grade 6 and my english teacher made us read My Side of the Mountain, I thought, Oh yeah. Another one of those nature books where some kid runs into the woods and tries to live. Whoopee Ding! Big Deal! But when I read only the first page, I was already completely drawn into the book, and I couldn't put it down. I recommend it to people of all ages. It's one of the best books I've ever read.

I am 12 years old and I love this book. We read it in our 7th grade class and I enjoyed it very much. The author, Jean Craighead George, is very clever with her use of words. My side of the Mountain is exiting and it makes you wonder if Sam is going to survive. I recommend this book for readers of all ages who love all types of books.

My side of the mountain is an exciting book about a young boy named Sam Gribley. Sam is a boy that gets tired of living at home so he runs away to his grandpa's farm that has been abanded for the last 3 centuries. Sam gets to the farm by hitchhiking a ride from a truck driver that is going through the town were the old farm is located. Once in the town he asks the librarian were the farm is located, and after searching for hours they find the farm and Sam leaves the town to go to the farm. Sam learns to build a fire with flint and stone, live off the land, and build a house out of an old tree. He also catches a falcon and teaches it to help him hunt for food. While Sam is living in the hills he has many visitors that come and find out about him, and there are hunters in the hills that go home and tell the media that there is a boy in the hills that is stealing there deer. With all of these events happening he starts to get more media attention, and people trying to find him, including his family. I encourage this book for all ages of readers who are seeking an adventure.

I am on my third reading of My Side of the Mountain (first as a fifth grader, then with my first son, and now with my second son) and I'm enjoying it as much as the first time. In fact, I might be enjoying it a little more. Although we live on the dividing line between the city and "the county," we're really urban dwellers. This book excited my Playstation/basketball playing semi-urban kids about nature. They looked at hikes and scouts in a new way. In fact, what was most frightening about the book was the time spent alone.
I highly recommend this as a reader, parent and teacher. In fact, I've used passages with my college ESL classes and they've gone on to buy the book and read the whole thing!

I just finished My Side Of the Mountain. I will give it 4 out of 5 stars because, it is about survival. There is a nice boy named Sam. He only brought a penknife, a ball of cord, an ax, some flint of steel, and 40$. He lives in a hollowed out tree, because he lived in a New York apartment, then he ran away from the apartment, after, he lives on a mountain on the Gribley's farm.

Will Sam survive?

Read this book to find out.

Reviewed By Evan

This book was about a boy who ran away from home and had to survive by nature. When he needs help he turns to a local librarian on the Catskill Mountains. The librarian helps him by showing him a book of plants that are pisonous and edible. Even though I read this book last year it still is pretty clear to me.I only read it because my fourth grade teacher made the whole class read it. I'm glad she did!

My Side of the Mountain

By Jean Craighead George

This is a survival and adventure book. It has many unexpected parts. The boy, Sam Gribley, and his pet falcan, Frightful, have to survive on thier own after Sam runs away to the old, family farm. While Sam was hiking he met and made an interesting new friend. I enjoyed learning tips on how to survive in the wilderness. I recommend this book to kids who like survival and adventure books.

I thing that this book was fabulous. The desriptions pulled me right into the book. It felt Like I was living in the mountains with him. I would've rated this book better but in some parts it was a little confusing with all of the characters. I think people who love action and people who like to think "What's gonna happen next" at the end of the chapter have to read this thrilling book ...

This book was really a great book because it partly related related to me because I live in the city and I have wished that my family would move to the country. I was not as desperate as him because my family owns a house in the country so I have never thought of running away before. This book is really captivating and it was also a page-turner. I highly recommend this book to any kind of reader.

My Side of the Mountain is a thrilling cliffhanger. I loved the end of each chapter it left you felling happiness or surprised. But especially thinking about the chapter you just read. It had very descriptive writing. Jean Craighead George is a great descriptive writer. I would recommend this book to every single one of my friends. It is a terrific book. I give it FIVE STARS!!!

I like this book because it is so adventurerous and I love adventues.I really,really love Sam and Frightful,but when I was almost done,I wanted to read it again until I found out that there was another book,On the Far Side of The Mountain.I loved this book also.When I found out about Frightful`s Mountain,I was overjoyed.I read it with a grin on my face.Now I`m making a diarama about the book.

I am in fourth grade. I read My Side of the Mountain as an assignment for home school. I really liked the book. I would read it again. I liked how Sam could live off the land and make food out of the plants and animals. I would like to try some of the things he made. It made me want to try an adventure like he had. You should read this book because it has lots of adventures and fun in it.

I absolutely loved the book "My Side if the Mountain." I have read it multiple times, and I highly recommend it. It is a great book that you enjoy for years. So, if you are thinking about buying this book, do it! I hope that this was helpful!

If you don't read this book you are crazy. I think My Side of the Mountain is the best book yet. Harry Potter isn't even close to being as good as it. This book has everything, it's funny, sad, scary, and awesome. The story is about a boy who runs away from home and lives in the wild. My favorite part was when Jesse James racoon stole Sam's nuts while he was taking his friend home. I only wish I could do what Sam did.

I read the book, My Side of the Mountain, and thought it was okay. I was not in love with it, nor did I hate it. I like how it is done in a journal entry sort of way, and how Sam took notes on certain things throughout the novel. While I was reading the story, I often wondered how Sam survived in the woods by himself with no food or shelter. At times, I thought the book was boring, and I was dreading to read on. There were also moments when I really enjoyed the book and had trouble putting it down. When I finished it, I was not sad that it was over like I am with some books. I was actually sort of excited that I was through. I think it is more of a nature person book or a boy book. I don't recommend it for girls, unless they love the woods and survival of the fittest kinds of novels. ADS

It's interesting how some people have such an ibility to survive in the wild like Sam did. Now that you think of it do you think that ANY twelve year old boy that wasn't raised by wolves could survive alone in the winter at the top peak of a mountain in the catskills? I think not!!! Bears, lack of food and shelter oh please! It's kinda boring but it's a cool story and it's good for those rainy days, but I wouldn't suggest buying it at all- go to the library! ...

I thought that this was a good adventure book. There are some surprising turns throughout the book that keep it exciting. Some parts were corny but others were thrilling. It's about a boy that runs away from the city to his Great Grandfather's old farm and lives in the woods. He catches a baby falcon and teaches it to catch food for both of them. It is a good book I give it **** stars.

Plot Kernel - A young boy runs off to live in the Catskill Mountain wilderness, taking nothing but a penknife, a ball of cord, an axe, $40, and some flint and steel. He fashions a home within a standing hemlock tree, makes clothing out of animal skins, and eats only what he can catch or harvest from the Earth. He trains a falcon to hunt, and lives with it for an entire year.

HELLO, MY NAME IS TIFFANY AND I AM HERE TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE BOOK MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN. I LIKED THIS BOOK BECAUSE IT TELLS YOU ABOUT THE DANGERS AND EXCITEMENT ABOUT THE WILD. IT TELLS YOU THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW AND FIND IN THE WILD AND WHAT TYPES OF FOODS TO EAT. IN THIS BOOK SAM USES A LOT OF CREATIVITY AND I LOVE A LOT OF CREATIVNESS. I THINK THIS IS A GREAT SOURCE FOR CAMPING, OR IF YOU WANT TO LIVE IN THE WILD LIKE SAM.

This book was great! Sam is as boy who lives in the mountains ,but used to live in New York with his little brothers and sisters.It was very crowded and noisy.That is why he is in the mountains.Sam was living in a tree in the Gribley's Farm.He found it with a map,but he didn't just read signs.He went went to the library to find it.The librarian was named Ms. Turner.Ms. Turner found it for him.He wanted to catch a falcon,So he had to go to the library to get information about the falcons.Once he got information he went up the mountains and caught a baby falcon.After,Sam trained her to catch food.They lived there for about 1-2 years all by himsef with his animal friends.The end is surely a surprise,but I will leave that to you to find out.I would recommend this book to someone who likes animals,the wilderness,and loves to read.I really enjoyed this book.I really liked the tree home he had.I also liked how he made all the pots,chimney,clothes,and food he needed to survive.I actually enjoyed the whole book!

This is a great book my summer school group just finished it together and the book is WONDERFUL!!!!I think the other kids really liked it a whole lot because it was a flowing easy to read it was relaxing and every time we sat down and read the book it made me feel like I could do that and it made me feel like nature isn't that horrible at all and that it might be fun to godo that!!!

I like the book, but I don't want to read it again.Some parts are boring and some parts are exiting. The parts that are boring ,is when Frightful went to fly with the falcon.The exciting part is when Sam had a party. The book is great. Sam is the guy that ran away. Sam is the main character. Frightful is Sam's falcon. Frightful is like Sam's companion. That is why I like this book.

Sam walks off from home with $40, flint, steel, and the determination to survive. No one actually thought he could survive, but he did. Eating vennison and plants, you could haddly believe he was from New York, but There are visitors, reporters trying to find out who the wild boy is and bring him back home. Sam will have to choose between city life and life in the wilderness.

It is about a boy that runs away from home and tries to survive. He gets a new best friend and learns how to survive off the land.

I'd rate this book 4 star out of five, because the beginning started out slow and kind of confusing. I liked how it got sad exciting and had mischief.

My Side Of The Mountain, written by Jean Craighead George is the best book I have ever read. It is about a boy named Sam who is tired of living in the small, crowded apartment in the heart of New York City. He decides to run away and live in the woods, but it is a little harder surviving than he expects. I chose this book because I love adventure and Jean Craighead George is an excellent author. My Side Of The Mountain has everything you want in an excellent book; great content, spell-binding moments, humor, and suspense. You never want to stop reading this book because it ends its chapters in a very critical way. I like the characters in this book because they are unusual and exciting. Every character is very different from ordinary people today. This book has such great detail that it feels like you are right beside Sam the whole way. The only thing negative about the book is that it is not very realistic. He does amazing things that are nearly impossible. He makes a house out of the inside of a tree in just a week or two and he even discovers how to make flour, sugar, and pancakes out of acorns. All and all this was a great book. It even won the Newbery Honor Award, although I think it should have won every single book award that ever existed.

I wold recomend the book My Side of the Mountain it is a great book for elementary reading. This exciting book about a boy named Sam (the main character),who runs away to the Catskills(his familys native land). On his crazy adventure Sam meets new friends and learns the meaning of life. My Side of the Mountain is a great book and I would recomend you to buy it right now.

I remember reading this book in 6th grade English class. (Seems like kids read it much earlier these days!) Anyway, I have this vivid image in my memory of the giant tree he hollowed out to make a home. I recommend this for any elementary student. It's magical and captivating. I'm 28 and I want to read it again!

I enjoyed this book and would think others would too.It looks to me that there are many supporting details in this book.It's a great book to read and that I would recommend this book to all kids fourth grade and up.I would recommend this to those people because it's appropriate for all people.Most likly this book will be good for kids or adults who likes the outdoors.

The title of the book is My side of the mountain.
There is a boy named Sam who ran away from his home in NY t live in the woods of the Catskills Mtns. He climbs a cliff and finds baby falcons. The falcon is named Frightful. I liked this book because it's adventurous and keeps you thinking and going. I recommend it for kids age 10 through 12.

I like this book because it has a good storyline and many supporting details to describe the main topics. I would recommend this book to older ages, especially people who like the wilderness. It potrays a good, realistic story about a boy thatruns away to the forest. I would read this book again, just to reread the adventure and to relive the wilderness feeling.

In the Newbery Honor Book My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George, it tells how to survive in the woods. The story starts with a boy named Sam Gribley, who runs away from his home to fulfill his destiny: to find his great-grandfather's old farm. With only a penknife, ball of cord, ax, forty dollars, and flint and steel, he survives many harsh months in the woods. Later in the book, he gets a companion that is a falcon named Frightful. Finally in the book he finds his great-grandfather's barn. The environment is a total change to him. It is comparing a crammed apartment in New York to the immense wilderness of the Catskill Mountains. Although he was mostly inept due to the circumstances, he still survived.
There are three reasons why I enjoy reading this book. First of all, it taught about wilderness survival and had many adventurous missions. Second of all, the author described the book so well that it felt as if you were in the book. Lastly, it showed later on when Sam showed kindness to a visitor by giving him shelter in his tree house and giving him some food. The only reason why I don't like this book is because it talks about him running away from home and it encourages the younger aged audience to run away from home like Sam. I think the book should be read from the ages 8-12. I really enjoy reading this book and would encourage you to read it.

-Chris

I ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!

This book is very descriptive, and makes me want to move out to the woods and build a house underneath a Hemlock tree. My dad read this book to me when I was 3 or four about 3 times and I loved it even then! If you like books that make you feel like you are actually in the book, this book is for you! It's AMAZING!

I read the book my side of the mountain by Jean Craighead.this book is about a yong boy named Sam Gribley who runs awayfrom the city to live alown in the Catcills Mountains.Sam Gribly goes through many changes while living in the the book my side of the mountain in the Catcills is very diffrent from the city where Sam used to live.The city is crowded and busy,in contrased the catcill mountains are calm silent and peaceful.sam can no longer buy clothes from deer hides.i feel that the moral of the story is this that if you try hard enough at something it will work out
I think that everyone should read this book because it makes you think about how hard it is to live in the mountains all alone.if you are like me and many others you will like this book because i think everone has thought about runing away from home one time or another.

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This book was a good book,it had some very intrested parts and thrilling adventures.Its about a boy who runs away and decides to live in the wilderness.However,alot of the book was detail and didn't make much sence with all the advanced vocabulary.I can't say I would reccomend the book, because I'm not exacly into the story line.

In My Side of the Mountain, there is a boy named Sam. He runs away from his home in New York City and goes to live in the Catskill Mountains. Sam is nice, brave, friendly, and adventurous. I would love to have him as a friend. He was brave when he stole a falcon from its nest for a pet. Sam made a house by burning the inside of a huge rotten tree. He whittled a hook out birch bark to catch fish. It worked! He had a friend, a college professor, who'd live with him during parts of the summer and during his school vacations. This friend would bring Sam newspaper articles about the "Wild Boy" of the Catskills. Sam ate nuts, meats, and berries in the woods. He made a lot of weird food out of the things that he thought tasted terrific. I enjoyed this book because it had nature and adventure.

My Side of the Mountain is about a boy named Sam Gribley. Sam runs away from his home in New York City. He wants to dwell by himself in the Catskill Mountains. He makes himself a house in a hemlock tree. Frightful the peregrine falcon he stole, to help him get food. Sam's father and his companion Bando come for Christmas. They have a wonderful time.
My Side of the Mountain is exiting and adventurous. Sam notifies his dad he is running away. He goes to the Catskill Mountains and steals a whole dear from hunters. He has a lot of nerve to live by himself for a year.
I think the message that the author is trying to share is "Some things don't happen, but not like you want them to." When Sam was making himself his house he lit a fire to burn out the inside of a tree. The fire warden came and put the fire out when Sam wanted it to keep burning. This book by Jean Craighead George was great! I give the book Five Stars!!!

I am going to tell you about the book "My Side of the Mountain." I liked the book because it is very exciting. It is about a boy that runs away from home because it is very noisy and gets annoyed alot. I would recommened tis book for people ages 9 to 12 to read this book. It is a very adventerous book. This is my book review for "My side of the Mountain."

My Side of the Mountain was a great book. I really enjoyed it. The book is full of surprises. It's a wonderful book to read. I would recommend this book to someone who enjoys reading and likes adventure. If you read it I'm sure you would like it. If you finished that book you can read the sequels. I read the other reviews and people mostly agree with me.

My Side of the Mountain is a wonderful story that captures a small boy and nature in a book.His adventures in his Hemlock Tree home and at the town create suspense,humor, and sadness. The excellent detail of capturing animals for food and fur, hunting wild berries and plants make you wish you were Matt. Everyone deserves to read a great book like this!!!

I could not resist reading this children's book and I was not disappointed. An excellent coming of age story about a boy (Sam Gribley) who leaves his large family in New York City to live by himself in the Catskill Mountains. His efforts to survive and his experiences living in a hollowed out tree are remarkable.

I had gotten a copy of this book from the library and the audio to go along with it. My son had read a chapter of this book in his lit anthology and told me he really wanted to read the whole thing. I listened to the tape while he read along with it. This book certainly takes you back to a different place and time. It was fascinating to me that the author was a woman. She really captured a young boy's voice beautifully. It was surprising to hear in the prologue the book almost wasn't published because the thought of a boy running away (not very far at that) to live on his own using his survival skills was too controversial. My, times have changed!
This is a great read for young boys and girls alike.

My Side of the Mountain is one of the most incredible books I have ever read. It is sad and happy... this book has everything!

This story makes the characters seem real. My absolute favorite character is Frightful, Sam's hawk. She was so sweet and seems like she knows when Sam is sad. She always knows how to cheer him up. It may sound impossible but it is true. Frightful is so awesome.

Some of my favorite scenes in the novel are when Sam and Frightful go hunting. Jean Craighead George seemed to put more description in those scenes, so I could visualize them better. When I read this book I picture myself standing right next to Sam watching how graceful Frightful looks in the air.

I would recommend this book to all of my friends because it shows you can do anything if you set your mind to it.

I've read My Side of the Mountain dozens of time in my life. It's a fun book to read and you learn a bit about nature, but the way the book is written, some of the characters, and the unbelievable elements of the book detract from the overall reading experience. Sam's friends are pretty gay, and there's no way any parents would let their son run away. I find it hard to believe that he survives the winter all alone in the mountains. Sam is a pretty thin character. In this book, they all are. I think it's gay how Sam names all the animals. This book is worth reading. It's entertaining, and fun to reread. Give it a try, just don't expect too much. I've read the sequel, On the Far Side of the Mountain. Parts of it are good, but it's a strange story. Not very engrossing. Trust me.

This book is the best. It is about Sam who runs away with his racoon becuase nobody understands him. Also he tried to make fires and he lived in a hallow tree. Then he finally got saved by...I'm not going to tell you. He also met this guy who used to stop by to give him food and newspapers. Then he found a hot spring where he took showers. I really hope you enjoy reading this book!

I loved this book because it had adventure and was very exciting. I would recommend this book to a friend because it is exciting and clever. Sam was so smart at figuring out how to live in the wilderness. I like that Sam respects the wilderness. I enjoyed this book so much that I went to the library and got THE OTHERSIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN.

I loved the book "My Side of the Mountain".I loved this book because it is a book that can really happen to a normal kid. The ending was a surprise because I thought Sam would stay in his tree . Did you have other endings you liked in your rough draft?I really loved and enjoyed this book and I recommend this book to people all over the world.

The book my side of the mountain was an interesting book It's about a boy named Sam Griggley who runs away from his crowded New York house to live in the catskill mountains.There he finds animal companions,and his great grandfathers farm.In my opininion I think that everybody in a 10-13 age group shold read it.He trains a falcon,makes his own house.twords the end you'll see a dramatic change in his attitude.The end will suprise you very much but that is all I 'm goining to say.

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.

Dear Jean Craighead,
I just finished reading "My Side Of the mountain" and I loved it because of all the aventures that Sam had. I also loved your book because it taught me some things and infomation. I wish that this book would never end because it was very exciting and when I started reading the book I couldn't put the book down.

I really loved this book. It was great, but I wish George hadn't done confusing things like have the begining be in the present, the middle in the past, and then the end in the present again. I really didn't understand it, and I wish she had not done so. I enjoyed it a lot. It was awesome. I would advise anyone to read it.

This story is about a 13-year-old boy. He lived in Delhi, N.Y, and Sam, the main character, is too crowded in life. He has 6 siblings. So Sam decided to run away into the Catskill Mts. The next day he goes out wondering where to sleep, "Where should I sleep?" he asks himself". Suddenly he had an idea! Maybe if he could burn the inside he could have a home, and he did. From the day he starts he works very hard until it's done. One day Sam saw a falcon, and decided to follow it. It led to a cliff. A nest was at the top. So he climbs up and gets a falcon; he names her Frightful. He makes a fireplace, bowls, and cups. Out of clay. Will Sam ever go home to his family, or stay at the place he loves? I highly recommend My Side of the Mountain all readers, because it is suspenseful and exciting. By Kevin

When I first started reading this book I was bored. I thought maybe boys would like it better. As I read more it became exciting. I liked all the adventures. My favorite part was when Sam's family came to live with him. I liked this book a lot. I would recommend it to boys and girls. I'm very interested in reading the sequels.

My Side of the Mountain is my favorite book! I read it 50+ times!! It's about a boy named Sam Gribley. Sam runs away in May to live on his Great-Grandfather's farm in the Catskill mountains. On the way he makes friends with a weasle, Baron, racoon, Jessie, and a falcon, Frightful. Read this book. You will love it. I guarantee!!

I thought My Side Of The Mountain was really neat! At one point when I was little I to wanted to run away but only made it to the end of the block and came back in fear of mom and dad selling my room! I love this book of Sam Gribley's adventure of surviving in the mountain of his great grandfather and to live off the land.

I liked reading My Side Of The Mountain because it was about a boy who had a dream and he actually went and lived out his dream. It was interesting to hear about how Sam taught himself how to survive and live off the land by himself. Like when he needed a container, and he used a tree stump and burnt it out. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys adventure stories.

I would recommend this book to a friend because it is full of action and suspense and is funny at times. The main character, Sam, is very brave because he takes on the wilderness all by himself. It is a tale of his adventures and things he encounters while he is in the woods. It is much different from his old city life. AW

I enjoyed this book very much becasue it was exciting , adventurous and intriguing. I would defintely recommend this book to all my friends and family.I was assigned this book to read for school but I am thankful that I did read it and am looking forward to the sequels.

This was the first time I've read this book and I thought every second of it was awesome!!!!!!! The reason why I gave it 5 stars is because I loved it.This book is about a boy named Sam who runs away from home into the forest and lives there,but, will Sam try to stay out of trouble? You have to read it to find out!!!!

I liked the book but I didn't like that he had to live in a house with his family again at the end. How come? That isn't fair. He was doing just fine without his family. And even if his family did come...Why didn't they all live like him??? I liked it though. I was just confused that he was living in a house again at the end.

I am homeschooled and my mom read this to us for our first read aloud of the year. It was great! I love Sam's personality and adventurousness. It makes you want to go and do it yourself! Definitely try it out!

Wow!!! This book was probably the best book I've ever layed my eyes on! O.K here is some info on My Side of the Mountain. A boy, Ben Gribly runs away from home in New York to live in the mountains. He catches a little someone that I'm not tell about. You've got to read this excellent story about survival in the wilderness.

There are two great characters named Sam Gribley, and his pet bird Frightful. On Sam's jouney he meets a frienly teacher he calles Bando. Before he set off to the Gribly Farm, he told his dad he was running away, but he just laughed.I loved this book because the plot, characters, and the adventure is all so wonderful.

My Side of the Mountain expalains hardships of the wilderness which I personnally want to know of. I feel that this book gives us information about animals and the wilderness. It teaches you how to fish, set traps, and train an eagle a little. It is a good survival book and comes along with an awesome storyline.

I read this book as a child. Reading this book as an adult brought the inner child back to life. I think everyone thinks of ditching society one time or another. I don't think I could live on Sam's diet or live in the hollow of a tree in real life, but through out the story you feel as if you did. Very few books today can actually make you feel a part of the story. The book also tells which plants are edible in the wild. This book should be recommended for every child to read. So much to learn in it about nature, falcons, plants, and survival itself. Great book.

I really liked this book, it taught me some really interesting facts about the how to survive in the wild. I never relized how hard it is to live in the wild. You have to know alot about it, like what you can eat and what you cant. I dont think I could ever live in the wild .Although I enjoyed reading this book. I thought it was very informative and interesting.

If you're the type of person who likes survival novel books, this is the book for you! This book is called My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George. The main characters in the book are Sam Gribley, a boy, Frightful, a bird companion, the Baron Weasel, who is also friends with Sam, and Bando, a man who helps Sam. Sam Gribley decides to go out to live alone. There, he is independent at living. Will Sam Gribley ever return home to his family in NYC? I liked this book because it's a first person narrative so it gives more description about the animals, setting, and what he's doing. I also liked the book because I like books about kids, especially a book about a kid and his pet. I highly recommend this book for ages 7 and up.

My Side Of The Mountain is a great book for all ages. If you're thinking of running away definitely take this book with you. If you're want an adventurous book this is a book for you. This book tells you what foods to eat how to make the food and how to train wild animals. This is the kind of book that you probaly won't put down until you're finished with it. So you should read this book.

Okay, this is technically a book review for my homework from academy. This fantastic book is about a young boy named Sam who was tired of city life. So he runs to the mountain with a penknife, a ball of cord,some of flint and steel, etc. He tries to find Gribley Farm, which is a farm that Sam's great grandfather made. So later, he finds a giant nest with one egg in it. Then later it hatches and a baby falcon comes out and Sam takes him and later turn friends. Sam now meets new people and learn new things and has to survive storms and etc. This book is a 4 star book and I recommend you to have this book on your lap in the next 24 hours after you read this review.

even though i'm not as old as the protesters, (well at least some of them) I'd like to stand up for this book. It was a reasonably good story, however unbelievable the doods are, like ze falcon getting tamed...at least it wasn't a wild tiger getting tamed! But it was written in 1959! What do you expect anyway? An up-to-date, '21st century' info etc.? So lay off!

I love the book .My favorite part in the book is when Sam gets his falcon Frightful .I also like how he makes his own clothes and gets his own food.It is a good book for children between the ages of 9 and 14. Kids who like adventures would love it.In the school holidays I am going camping with my brothers

My Side of the Mountain is wonderful! I enjoyed wilderness survival and family relationships. I would recommend this book to a friend because of all the things you can learn about surviving in the wild. I learned things like how to make a fire and what kinds of food you can find and eat in the wild.

This book has a lot of adventure and excitment. I would recomend it to somebody who has an open mind and is very adventurous. Once you start reading you can't stop because it always has a new adventure in the next chapter. I think I could surrive in the wilderness now that I have read the book.

A summery of the Newbury honors wining book my side of the mountain, by Jean Creighead George. I found this book to be a very venturous as well as entertaining. The main character of this book is a boy by the name of Sam Gribley, he is a boy who is tired of living at home in crowded New York City. This is where the story begins, Brian runs away from home to the Catskill Mountains to live off of the land. He begins with only a penknife, a ball of cord, an ax, forty dollars, and some flint and steal. He must rely on his integrity and knowledge of the land to survive the many adventures. I especially like this book because I find my self to be an outdoorsman in a few ways, so if you like the outdoors and adventure you should read this book. Not to forget it has a few illustrations on traps and various other survival tactics.

This book was awesome! Sam did what every kid wishes they could do. He ran away and lived in the woods. He got a pet and made some friends, including a weasel and a racoon. Sam Gribbly is the hero of most american kids. I recommend this book to anyone who can appreciate a good book.

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.

We as a class had to read "My side of the Mountain" and then give a report on it. I did not find the book very interesting for myself because I enjoy historical books, My favorite author is Mary Pope Ausborn.
But, if you like nature, it would be a good book for you. Sam is tired of the busy city life and all the noise from his brothers and sisters, and his Dad making fun of him so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains, where he learns to make a fire (with the help of Bill) and he has to catch his food, (he just has to learn to survive on his own) This book is about the challenges he faces and how he overcomes obstacles to survive.
I would not read this book again, but since it was required for class, I had no choice. Most of the girls in our class were bored throughout the story. I think the boys liked it better. It just depends on what interests you have in books.
And yes, I had to write this review as part of my grade!

My Side of The Mountain is a book about a boy and his bird named Frightful. He ran away from home and went to live in the woods. He built his house in a tree. This boy's name is Sam Gribley. For food Sam would sometimes go down to the creek try to get some fish to cook over a small fire. It wasn't always that Sam could get a fire going. My opinion is that I didn't really like the book.

Sam Gribley was sick of living in a cramped apartment with his eight brothers and sisters in New York City. One day he decided he was going to go to the Catskill Mountains to find his grandfater's land. When he found the property he built a house by burning out the inside of a tree. He caught a falcon and named it Frightful. Over time he trained the bird to hunt and made friends with some of the hikers. One of the hikers, whicch Sam called Bando, was a college professor and took a liking to Sam. Him and Sam became good friends and Bando came back to visit on all of his vacations. Sam made it through the tough winter in the Catskill Mountains, but with all of the hikers wandering around would Sam soon be found and put all over the news?

This book is one of the best books I have ever read! You surly will fall in love with Sam, Frightful, Bando,Jessie C. James, and The Baron. If you want to know how to live in the wild this book will and I mean will help you out. I'm tell you this book is just simply just the best book of all time.

My Side of the Mountain is about this boy named Sam that left home because his family thought he couldn`t go to the Catskill Mountains. He did so and he tried to survive in the wild. He thought at first it was difficult, but when he got halfway it got easier and easier.

I sort of hate this book. I give it a 3 because in the beginning, it's sad. The middle is sort of happy. The end was surprising.

I liked this book because I didn't know what was going to happen next. The book told me about the dangers in the Catskill Mountains. My Side of the Mountain is a great book even if the reader is a little confused at first. This book is about a boy named Sam Gribley who runs away to his Grandfather's old farm in the Catskill Mountains from an overcrowded apartment in New York City. He is tired of the city life and wants to find a new way to live. Taking with him a penknife, and a hatchet, he sets of into the Catskills. There Sam lives in a burnt out hollowed tree, eats deer, crayfish, and rabbit. He meets many people that help him survive in the mountains. He makes many human friends and animal friends as well. But then he must survive a harsh winter in the Catskills. Will Sam survive? To find out read the book My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George.

This book is very interesting it has many detailed sentences, many relationships, it's humurous, and has some funny comments. I would recommend this book to a person who is looking for a story with adventure, animal life, human life, tips on running away, a long story, and a hard relationship.

Sam is a boy who ran away from home because his dad said he would never last two days in the wild.He wants to prove his dad wrong so during the night he leaves home and heads to the wild.This is a good book for someone that likes books that have a deep thuoght to them.I would recomend this book to anyone that likes any book.It always fits.

As an adult, I found "My Side of the Mountain" slow,unrealistic, naive, and all those other adult things, but I canremember reading a number of books of this survivalist/naturalist genre as a child and being utterly enthralled. I believe that this is a book that will turn many children's imaginations in a direction hitherto unthought of. It will also serve as a healthy safety valve to release some of children's pent-up desire for freedom through their friend Sam.

As I say in my title, it was okay. I'd actually say more of a 3 and half than a four. The book is about a boy who ran away from home and decided to live in the woods. I think that it's very good compared to another one of her books, Water Sky (which I also reviewed). Jean Craighead George does a decent job on this. There just isn't enough action in it to keep me enthrawlled.

I would recemend this book to anybody who likes good imagery,suspense,and a good plot.Sam runs away from home to the catskill mountains to his dead grand fathers land.Sam found a old willo tree probly as old as the mountain.Sam carves it out and makes it his home.his father comes to the land and finds Sam and he is impresed with what he accomplished.

this book was the most adventurous, courageous, and daring!! This was the coolest to read about on how he survived in the wilderness alone by catching his food. I learned many things from this like what plants are edible and some basic tips on surviving in the wilderness. I loved this book.

This book does a really good job of portraying what living off the land would probably be like. I know it came out a while ago, but I just read it recently and I was impressed with how the main character actually knew what he was doing when he hollowed out a tree and made clothes out of deerskin, rather than just winging it. Good stuff.

I read this book in my class and I really enjoyed it! It has great plot and a surprising ending. This is a really creative book about what happened to a kid that ran away from home Overall I really liked it!

I like the book because it is interesting and good. I like the way Sam lives in a tree and also how he has a trained falcon name Frightful. I wish the story was a little longer so he could meet more people and have more time with them because he only met three friends.

My Side of the Mountain is a good book. It is very creative and readers will like it. It is about a boy that goes to the Catskill Mountains and hollows out a hemlock tree. He lives there for awhile. His dad finds him and lives with him awhile. But, in the end his whole family goes up to the Catskill Mountain range and lives there a long time.

This action packed book is spectaculary spectacular. I loved it!!!... It rocked.It was very adventuroui and it was never boring!! He was very self-sufficent. It had many big words such as Tedious, Quarry, and conspicupous!!
Read this book and find those words! It was awesome!!!...

My Side Of The Mountaun is the best book i ever raed so far I love the book also I rate it With 5 stars because It is like if you are really on a mountain and the descriptions give you an idea what it is like.I loved MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN. it was great.I also am a fAN of this book.

This book was great. Sam runs away because his apartment is filled with all of his siblings and his parents. From meeting strangers and them coming back to visit him,and stealing a baby duck hawk falcon,then naming it Frightful, Sam leads an exciting life in the Catskill mountians.

my side of the mountain is a good story. it would not be a good story for teens. it would be a good book for younger kids to read.the story is very touching tail. this one little boy runs away from home and tries to survive and eat. he even stole a falcon, a pergren falcon, and trained it to catch food for him.

This story is about a brave boy named Sam Gribley. He lives in a tree with a pet falcon named Frightful. He lives in the woods because he ran away from home. Sam has Halloween and Christmas parties with a lot of surprise visitors. I think this is a good book for 3rd-6th graders.

Do you like to read books?well this is one for you!My side of the mountain is a story by Jean craighead george.I gave it 5 stares because it was a awsome adventure. Sam in My side of the mountain is adventurous hard working,tough and a fearless kid.It was a terific story!

4 stars My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

My Side of the Mountain is about a boy named Sam Gribly that runs away and lives in the wild on Catskill Mountain. He studied survival books to be ready. He makes homes out of many things. He is very creative. I would recommend this book to 4th grade and up. tp

I liked this book because it talk about a lot of good information if you go and live in the wild. This book is a good book to read I think that this book needed a little more action. I liked this book because he know every single plant animal there was to see. I liked how Sam gets a pet falcon in the book to help him hunt for food. I think you would like this book if you read it. Miles

In My Side of the Mountain the character's are a youg teen named Sam Gribly. Sam run away from home and goes and lives in the Catskills and survives of the land. In my opinion the book is a good book because I like survial stores.I recommend this book if you like survial stores.

wow! this was an awesome book! i like it so much! the idea of a young kid running away is amazing! It was an adventure every page and frightful made it even better i am currently reading the sequel "on the far side of the mountain" you should definetely read this book!

he used to watch the original movie when he was a kid, over and over again. He's been away from home for a few years, working on a ski slope in CO, so I wanted to send him a bit of 'home'. I know it's a kid's book, but he said he really enjoyed it, and has read it several times. It brought back lots of memories. It's been a story that has stayed with our family for almost 20 years now!

Get ready to go on a fantastic journey with Sam Gribley in the Catskill Mountains in which he climbs a cliff, steals a deer, and builds a treehouse. Sam has some scary adventures and he also meets some friends ,sooo... if you want to read this book , you can. I loved it!

I loved this book! It was very exciting! My favorite part was when Sam found the Baron Weasel. I would recommend this book to kids who like adventure stories in the wilderness. I could not put this book down!

Its been many years since I've read this book. But I can still tell you the story like it was yesterday. I think this was probably the first book I read from front to back. It pulled me into the story. As a young boy I spent my weekends fishing and hunting. This book traveled with me in my backpack like a survival guide. I had to tape the binding because I wore it out. I made the snares and looked for nuts and berries and all that good stuff. I can truthfully say this single book molded a part of me that is still with me today. Encourage your child to read it. After the first few pages they will be hooked. I haven't read the trilogy, but, now that I know it exists I plan to.
Tom S.

Teenage Sam runs off to the wilderness not knowing how fun and adventurous it will be.

This is very educational and imformative. I'd recomend this book to kids 10
years and up.

Even my mom liked it!

I am a sixth grader. I thought My Side of the Mountain was a very good book. It was a very adventurous book. It is about a kid named Sam who has dreamed to run away from home. He found a tree that was big enough for him to live in and he burned out the inside of it to make a house. Sam goes through harsh weather and eats only berrys, turtle soup, and some meat that he hunts for. I loved this book so much and i would recamend this book for people who like adventure books. I would rate this book a five star book because it was so good and there was a lot of intresting things in this book, like what kind of food is good to eat in the woods and what kinds of food isn't so good to eat. I really enjoyed this book. But to find out if Sam makes it through the winter and all the harsh weather you will have to read the book and find out what happens at the end.

My Side of the Mountain is a good book for outdoorsy people however, I personally didn't like it and I'm an outdoorsy guy. If you like unrealistic things this book is for you. This book is recommended for ages 6-10.

I loved this trilogy because I like the outdoors and falcons. They are a great read because it shows examples of how humans can take care of the earth and keep our beautiful animals safe. It teaches you skills you can use if you get lost; what to eat, how to find shelter; etc. Just a wonderful series.

my side of the mountain is an awsome book.

the story is about a boy named Sam that runs away from home

and how he survives living inside a tree with only a penknife,

a ball of cord, some flint & steel & the clothes on his back!

I really enjoyed reading My Side of The Mountain for school because I was interested in the story. One of my hobbies is survival and activities having to do with living off the land. Overall, I really enjoyed reading this book.

My Side of the Mountain is an fantastic story! I like the story because it's a very well written story. I just had to give it 5 stars,although I wanted to give a higher review. This book is an 4th grade reading level. All ages will enjoy this book.

It was a good book because of the tips of surviving in the wilderness. The one I thought was the best was boiling the egg in the water in the leaf. It was cool! Another good tip was grinding baked acorn to make pancakes. It would taste good I think.

This book was an okay book and I probably wouldn't read this book again because it's boring,there are no good main events,plus the book goes nowhere throughtout the hole thing.I wouldn't recommend this book.Plus,Sam can do almost anything.That is why I don't recommend this book.

This book opened me up to nature and filled me with emotion, it was so realistic. You can feel Sam's feelings, cry when he cries. You believe as if you're there. My 4th grade teacher read this and I sought out a copy, making this author my #2 fave ever

In My Side of the Mountain, Sam leaves the city and goes to a forest on a mountain to live off the land. My favorite thing in the book is that he gets a pet falcon named Frightful. What I don't like is that he gets found out. At the end, his family comes to live with him but they don't live in Hemlock trees, they build a house out of wood. I recommend this book highly to all my friends!
By Aidan, 8 yrs. old

This review comes from my 10-year-old son, Dylan. I'm typing exactly as he wrote.
"I think that 'My Side Of The Mountain' is a great book because of the relationship between Sam and the Catskills. The plot is great, but the way he encounters Frightful was horrible. I also like how the story ends.
The only thing I didn't like too much was the reason Sam ran away. Also, the organization of the book is a little bit complicated - with the chapters being in a weird order.
Overall is a VERY good book and I can't wait to read the sequel."

I love this book because it has a lot of action and adventure in
it. I love action and adventure. I recommend this book for
mostly everybody, whether they like excitment or not, it is
still a good book for mostly everybody!

Dear Ms. Jean C. George,
Your book, "My Side of the Mountain" was an excellent book.
I like Frightful, Sam, and all his friends. I also likehow Sam manages in the Catskills Mountains.
Please write back!
From,
...

I would recommend My Side of the Mountain to everyone who reads because this is a very realistic, page turning, survival story which also provides great information if you were ever stranded in the wilderness as was the main character, Sam.

I think the book My side of the Mountain was a very good book and I enjoyed it very much.The book had alot of action and frightining situations.The book was a very good survival story and I recommend it to anyone who likes survival stories.

I would recomend, My Side of the Mountian, to any one who likes to read, and has a sence of adventure in them. It is a fantastic story of a young boy named Sam Gribley, who runs away from home, and the city, to get to a nice quiet wood, near the old Gribley farm. There he meets new friends, like the peskey Baron Weasel. And he captures, and trains a pet falcon, witch he later names frightful. I really enjoyed reading this book with my teacher, da Schmud. It waz koo. It waz fun., j/k, i really liked the setting, and the characters, and the ideas and skills that were put into the effort of it was great!

In my opnion, it is not a very good book. It is very boring Nothing happens. It's not exciting. I will NEVER read it again. All it ever talks about is Sam catching food, hanging out with people and animals. He should do something else

I think all kids should read this book to learn how to live on there own. Because this story is about a kid that left home to live on a mountain at his grandfather's farm. And he left home because he wanted to live on his own. This boy was 9 years old when he left home. I think all kids should try to live on their own at 21. It was really exciting until frightful was confiscated it was sad.

This is one of my favorite novels from my younger years. I still read it every couple years, and I'm over 30 now. It makes me feel grateful for life, and I feel like I know I can survive alone in the Rockies if I only have this book with me. LOL! Not only does the protagonist - tired of family and tired of his life - learn how to survive in the wilderness, he learns what is really important in life. Later in college, I found out this character's realization has a name - Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Great to read, and a great gift for any young person.

I thought that My Side was a really good book. The parents I think were cool on how they let him go and give it a try on his own that way he could learn do stuff on his own and not have to be asking mom or dad to do it or get it for him. Frightful was a good friend to Sam and i think that that is really cool that he has a Falcon there with him in my personal opinion i would feel alot more comfortable with some kind of animal so i thought it was really cool how he had a Falcon there with him to maybe warn him and kinda protect him. Well thats my opinion on the book.

My Side of the Mountain is a good book.
I like it because it's about a boy who leaves home to live in the wild. Where he felt he needed to be.

I think he left because he didn't like the life he was living. I kind of relate to Sam.
You would too.
Read it.
Love it.
Than repeat

This is the story of a boy named Sam who ran away from home to live alone in the Catskill Mts.He has a hard life.He had to find food.The book is written like a diary.Read to see how he survived and if he ever returns home.

The book showed how life can be challenging if you make it challenging and it shows how wonderful peace is when you have been alone for a long long time. I think the writer's point in the story is that all of us have a skill and we need to runaway and find out what our skill is. Everyone is afraid of industrial things taking over the world's air and ground and this book makes people feel in the woods with nothing but your sane mind and a few things. This book helps you understand nature and its difficulties. This makes you more attached to nature.

I think this book was great because it was one of the best books I have ever read. It is about a boy, named Sam Gribley. He ran away to live in the Catskill Moutains.
He has some friends, like the Barron weasel, and Jessie C. James, the raccoon. I recommend this book 9-12 year olds!!!

I was greatly interested in how the boy managed to live in the woods and off the land for a year.
When I was very young, we lived by some woods. For several years we were very poor. Luckily my father was able to provide us with supplemental food from the woods or I might not be here today to write about it.
You never know when tragic circumstances causes a family to have to survive without basic necessities. Very inspiring. I think reading a book like this should be required in any school curriculum or family, alongside with the study of the plants mentioned.

Do you like adventurous novels?It was good because you will feel he is talking to you!You will want to read on and on.This book will pop up a suprise right at you!It will teach you friendship,trust and more.

I read this book about 10 times and it was great each time. For a young reader, this book will give them confidence that will help with their daily lives. The young boy in this book leaves home at an early age and travels to a mountain that his grandfather lived on years ago. He learns how to survive in the wilderness and befriends a falcon that he teaches to hunt for him. The detail of the area by the author is just wonderful. Read this book even if you are an adult. You might just learn something about how to survive in the real world.

I thought this book was ok case it gives a lot of information. The book is weird because of the stuff that he got and friends he met. I like it because what he dose there. It is to short. How he to that falcon.

This was a good book, in my opinion. My favorite part was in the middle, when Sam has just survived his first winter in the Catskills. It was very good when he had just realized that he could survive alone in the forest wthout aid.

-Emma D. (for a school project)

Great book for any child, Great for any adult. I bought this for my nephew. He is now obsesed with wilderness survial and after about the first few chapters that I read to him, he started wanting to read inbetween my readings to him, and also wanted to read aloud to me during our reading time together. He used to have dificulty in reading (dont know if he couldnt focus, or if he was bored with the story) until he started with this one. Since then his reading has drasticaly improved. I almost CRY

I think the book my side of the moutain is a exlent thrill for people 8 and over. The main charchter in the book is a 11 year old kid named sam gribley. sam ran away from home one day to live in the catskill mountains. He lives in New york city. He ran away to find his great-grampas farm.

This book combines real facts and a interesting story for a great book!!! This is not her only success: the Julie of the Wolves trilogy is also great. I really enjoyed this book and think you will too.

Sam is running away from home because he can't take the city anymore, but where will he go? A forest and live in a tree. Will he survive? Will he go back home? Will someone find him? You can find all the answers in the book My Side of the Mountain!

I don't really care about this book all that much because why would you run away and take a big risk of dying? If this was a true story, I would think that kid is crazy! I give this 2 stars.

This is a must read book. If you like adventure and survival books this is the book for you. My Side of the Mountain was written by Jean Craighead George. Sam Gribley and his pet falcon Frightful live in the Catskills Mountains in New York. They make their home out of the center of a big tree. Will Sam be able to survive? Will they be able to find food? Read the book to find out. There are two squeals to My Side of the Mountain. They are, Frightful's Mountain, and The Other Side of the Mountain. I haven't read the two squeals but I'm sure they're great.

Arrived quickly and in good shape.

I loved these books when I was young, so I wanted to get them for my daughter for Christmas. The stories are as good as I remember - however, I thought that this would come in a set of three different books. Instead, it's just one HUGE binding. If I had known that, I would have preferred buying all three books separately, since the book is too heavy for my daughter to hold comfortably.

Not an on the edge of your seat book, but wonderfully keeps your attention. The ending could have been rounded a little easier. It was very fun to see what happened. I will read it again soon. Most Puffin books you can trust to be good.

I thought the book was sad in one part when Sam took Frightful from her nest and away from her family. But I thought it was good in the end when Sam's family came to live with him. I liked most of the book and I would recommend it to others.

This is a story about a boy named Sam who runs away from home to his Great Grandfather's farm in the Catskill Mountains. He carves out a tree and lives in it with his trained falcon. Will he survive? Read it to find out.

I think that more people should read My Side of the Mountain. I liked it because Jean Craighead George stopped the chapters in exciting parts. She gave lots of details. Sam is a very smart and exciting character.

I think this book would not be good for young children because they might try to be like Sam and run away from home. Besides that it was a very good book and I liked it a lot. I thought that Sam was a very inspiring character, and if someone did try to live off the land they might learn a lot from that book that would be helpful.I would not mind reading that book again at all because it was so good.

This is a great book about a young boy named Sam Gribley that ran away from New York. It is great for people 8 and up. I read it in 2 months but that wasn't nonstop. It was like 1 chapter a 3 days. It was a really great book. If you haven't read it yet, you should.

I would definitely recommend this book because I enjoyed reading about the progress Sam made through his journey. Sam really learned a lot about survival and wild animals during his time in the wilderness. This book showed me how hard it would be to survive without the everyday luxuries I have and without my family.

This book is about a boy named Sam Gribley that runs away from his apartment in NY to the Catskill mountains. There he figures out how to live off of the land and to communicate with nature. He ends up after a few days of sleeping by his fire that he made with flint and steel, to carve out a tree and live in it. He makes some friends up in the mountains including his pet bird Frightful. I would say that this book is for people that are very independent and enjoy the wilderness.

I have been reading My Side of the mountain every year since I had to do a report on it in 5th grade! I couldn't read it the past 2 years because I was staying the night at my grandmother's and when I left to go back home I forgot the book at her house. I asked her for it later and she said that she didn't know where it was, So I'm going to have to get another book!
My Side of the mountain is my most favorite book EVER!!!!!!!!

If you are thinking this book is about someone who owns a side of a mountain, you're wrong. It's about a boy who lives off the land. This book was a little short and it needs more illustrations to help the reader picture what the author is talking about. But the story teaches survival techniques and it's a book you can't put down until you find out what happens. So if you can read for hours on top of hours and even if you can't read that long, You Should Read This Book!

Its a fairly simple story, very easy for children to follow. If you like primitive living/survival subject matter this one is for you. The story is over 50 years old now and that is pleasantly reflected in various aspects of that culture. What an attractive alternative to video games.

This book is excellent reading. Not only is the writing dead-on, the story is fantastic. Sam's independence, inventiveness, and perseverence is inspiring for kids, and the ending is perfect (I won't spoil it).

I have my students read this (and The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler) every year, and then they do a project explaining how they would cope if they had to go live someplace exotic by themselves for a year (such as a space colony, a deserted island, etc.)