My Side of the Mountain

My Side of the AWESOME Mountain

My side of the Mountain was an awesome story!!!! I enjoyed every part of it!! My Side of the Mountain was a really nice story to read. It kept me up soooo late! I am a ten year old and this was one of my favorite reading books this whole summer!! I recommend it for anyone that loves the outdoors!!!

4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

Boring

We don't like My Side of the Mountain because every chapter they added a new character. Also in every chapter the subject changes. We don't understand it. There are too many characters. It just is not right.
What's up with the weasel?He shows up in one chapter and then he leaves in one chapter and then comes backin another. The main character, Sam, is very adventorous. We learned this at the beginning of the story. By the end of the story we hadn't learned much about him besides that he's adventorus.
I don't recommend this book because you can't really understand most of the characters and the story. We didn't like this book because of the vocabulary. They could have put better words in there. We don't recommend this story to anybody.

1 out of 6 people found this review helpful.

An AWSOME ADVENTURE BOOK!!!

This story is about a boy who wants to live on his to grandfathers farm. He runs away from New York to the Catskill mountians. Along the way he learns some intersting facts. About his gradfathers farm. He also makes many animal friends. He eventually lives on the farm. This is what this book is about.

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

My Favotite Book I Have Ever Read

I would recommend this book to any one who like the outdoors or thinks they do.It is about a teenage boy is sick of living in the crowded city and decides to run away to his granpa's old farm in the Catskills Mountains. He Doesn't know any thing about survival at first, but quickly learns with help from people around a nearby community.
He learns how to catch fish and build fire to survive. He burns out a huge tree for a house and lives inside. He meets several people in town, but he does not like all of them. He learns about falcons from a lady, then climbs a cliff to get a female chick. He names her Frightful and raises her. She grows and catches prey for him during the late summer.
When winter arrives, he has plenty to survive. But by then several reporters try to catch him and make him give them interviews. The rest will be up to you to discover the surprise ending!

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

My review of my side of the mountain

The book I read is called ¿My Side of the Mountain¿. The main conflict of this book is that the main character, Sam, runs away from home to live off his family¿s old farm. He ran away to live off the land independent from society. When he gets there he has to learn to catch his own food, make fires and live in the woods, things a city boy knows nothing of. After he starts to get the hang of living off the land, he begins to get some publicity. Local papers tell of a ¿Wild boy¿ living in the woods with his pet falcon. He also has a falcon named Frightful that he raised from a chick. This poses a problem because, now he has to be careful to make sure no one sees him. Those are some conflicts of the story.
I like this story because it¿s told from the main characters point of view, and it includes all of his feelings and encounters. I also like how the author uses a journal format. It makes the reader feel like you are the main character at some times. When Sam gets really lonely I feel his sadness. When he caught his first deer I felt excited for him. In my opinion there are no bad parts of this book. thats my review.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

My Side Of The Mountain

The book My Side Of The Mountain is a very good and exciting book. It has components from Challenging, Excitement, and it uses alot of Imagery and Similes. Some examples of imagery is when Sam says, "mmm do you smell that, it smells like sweet cotton candy and chocolate pretzels and steaming hot popcorn" and some examples of Similes are, " Im as hungry as a momma bear". This book is with out a doubt my all time FAVORITE book, i've read it since i was 11 and i would still give it two thumbs up.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

I Loved, loved, LOVED this book!

I Loved, loved, LOVED this book!

My Side of the Mountain was an overall good book. It is the stor

My Side of the Mountain was an overall good book. It is the story of Sam Gribley, who runs away from New York City to the Catskill Mountains. There he lives for a year, alone in the wilderness. Sam Gribley’s parents had full notice that he was running away. They had many kids and did not care about Sam. It took me a while to get hooked, but once I did, I couldn’t stop reading it. It was an intriguing realistic fiction with a flabbergasting finish. This book taught many skills on how to survive on your own. With that said, there were some useless sentences throughout the book, but My Side of the Mountain showed how hard it is to live on your own for one whole year. I recommend this book for people who like the outside world and adventure.

Highly recommended especially for outdoor loving boys

I have been reading this book to my sons at bedtime. They are 10 and 12 and love it. We love to camp and hike and this book with its wonderful descriptions of animals and wilderness and wholesome adventures has been a great read. It is adventuresome and calming at the same time so it is nice to read aloud before bed.

Great Book for Nature Lovers

As I was reading this book, its idea of living in the woods amazed me. The way Sam lived in his tree and made his clothing, food, and supplies completely from nature was truly astonishing. I think the climax of this book is was when Sam did not want to be heard from by any reporters, but then in some ways, he did. Sam's problem was resolved by his parents and family who decided to come live with him. The only down side to this resolution is that Sam's mother decided that they were going to build a house and live a normal life. Sam was upset about this because he wanted to truly live wild.

-Isaac McNulty

Highly Recommended - you must check it out!!

this is a great book. it will surprise you to the end. it really effected my out look on nature.

Must Read!!!!

This is a great book for all lovers of the outdoors such as myself. I read it when i was young and have just reread it and loved it as much as I did then. Also, check out: The Wild Adventures of Eli Johnson and Curly Bill for another exciting outdoor adventure.

The wild boy winds up for more. Check it out

Myside of the mountian is a great book. I read this book in reading groups and my teacher says that before she read it her friend told her it is great and now because I read it I am recamending it to you. Read this book.

you must read it!! it was great!!

My Side Of The Mountain My Side Of The Mountain was a very interesting fictional novel by Jean Craighead George. This book was set on a mountain farm called the Gribley farm. My Side Of The Mountain was about a boy named Sam Gribley who lived in the city and absolutely hated it. While living in the city, he lived in an apartment with his mom, dad, and his eight brothers and sisters. He hated being so crowded and had always wanted to run away. One day, he did. He ran away to his grandfather's farm on the mountain and he loved it. Well most of it. He stayed on the mountain through the glorious days of summer and through the vicious, cold days of winter. Although Sam missed his friends and family from the city, he did make some friends on the mountain. He captured a hunting bird named Frightful who made his life a lot easier. Frightful did because with both of them hunting, they eventually had a great surplus of food for the winter. He also met a weasel and named it Baron. While up on the mountain, a few human visitors came to visit him too. One of the visitors was Sam's father. Sam's father visited him to tell him all that had been happening in the city. A few other people that visited were not the best guests to have because they were trying to get him to leave the mountain, which is something he did not want to do. My Side Of The Mountain contained many positives and negatives. One positive involved Sam being kept from all of the other people from the city at the mountain. This was a great thing because Sam did not want anyone to know that he lived on the mountain. He was afraid that if people knew that he lived on the mountain, they would want to come live with him there and that is not what he wanted to happen. He wanted to be the only human to live on the mountain, because the reason that he left the city was that he didn't like all the people. To have them all come to the mountain he ran away to would not be a very good thing. He also didn't want people to know that he lived there because he knew that they would try to motivate him to come back to the city. Another positive about the novel was that Frightful, his bird, was there to help him get food. If Frightful weren't there, living at the mountain would be a much harder task. One more positive about this novel was that Sam's family missed him so much and he didn't want to come back to the city to live with them, although he missed them a lot too, so they just came to live with him on the mountain. There were also some negatives about this book. One negative was that the news reporters found out about Sam living at the mountain and came to see him. Sam did not want this to happen because he didn't want anyone to know that he lived at the mountain by himself because he thought that they would want to come live with him there and that would not be a good thing in Sam's case. Another negative about this book was when he got stuck in his tree house because of the ice sealing him inside of the tree. The bad thing about this was that Sam needed to get food all the time or else he could starve, which would not be a good thing for him. One last thing that was not a good thing that happened in this book was when his whole family came to live with him. He loved the fact that they wanted to live with him on the mountain, but he didn't want them to build a house there. He wanted all of them to live in trees like he had been doing since he arrived on the mountain. As you can see, Sam had

One of the Best I've Ever Read

I read this book when I was in 5th grade and have read it about four times since. Each time I was a different age. I am 57 yrs old now and have just re-read it again. This book is a treasured classic. It's a story of survival. Man against nature, man against self, man against society. These are basic reading elements that apparently are no longer being taught in our schools. What a shame that kids don't have enough imagination to enjoy a truly imaginative and informative story without some sort of sound track or special effects to fill in the blanks for them. I found this book to be just as entertaining and satisfying to read at the ripe old age of 57 as I did when I was 11.

Not recomended

I onestly did'nt like this book.I DONT RECOMEND IT B/C THERRE ARE TOO MANY CHARACTERS IN THE STORY! In every chapter there is always one new person or animal in there!WATS UP WITH the barron weasel??HE apreared every once in a while! I ALSO DIDN'T LIKE THIS BOOK BECAUSE it's gramar i feel like it could've used better laungauge or beter words!I mean instead of using scared in eveyr chapter why not terified or frightened?? I WOULDN'T ALSO RECOMEND THIS BOOK BEACUSE ITS CONPLICATED TO UNDERSTAND!!! You can't even realy tell the point of the story!I found it pointless. THE only new thing I had learned about sam since the begging of the story was he was adventourus!I didn't realy learn anythign new about sam! I don't reccomend this book to ANYONE!!


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0 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

Pretty Good

I think that my side of the mountain was edecational, and it was almost like i didn't know if i liked it or not, but i'm pretty sure i enjoyed it.

Not A Good Book!!

This book was interesting, but it wasn't very good. My Side Of The Mountain is about this boy named Sam Gribley he was tired of living with his family in a small apartment in New York City, so he set off to spend some time on his great-grandfather's land on a mountain in the Catskills. During his stay there Sam lived completely in the world of nature. He wanted to go hunting so he looked outside the door and noticed his floor was messy, so he decided to clean it up then he went hunting. While he was in the woods he ran upon a dead deer. So, with all of his strength, Sam drug the animal through the woods. As he came upon is tree he gathered up the hemlock boughs on his bed, rushed back and threw them over the carcass. Another part of the book was, one morning Sam woke up to a rustle in the leaves above. Instantly he was frightened, he had learned how to deal with his fears. So, if you like hunting and nature books, you will like this one. But if you don't, like I didn't, don't even waste your time buying it!

decent book

In the beging of the story My Side of the Mountain there was a boy who ran away from his home in new york city.
The main points are you can live off the land.
And I liked it.

It's a good book for kid's.

I liked the book My side of the mountain.It was a very adventures book.Having someone to live in the woods for a long time is different.The boy that lived in the wild took over the land.He got a pet facon which I think wood be cool to do.I liked it because it would be fun to live off of the land and take over.The story ended kind of sad,but kind of good.His parents are good parent's.They are not that strict.I would like to read it a few times more to fully understand it.My review of the book is good.I liked it because it was like a lot of other books.It is one of the books I do like.It is one of my favorites to.