Title: My Side of the Mountain
Author: Jean Craighead George
Genre: Fiction
Summary: This is a story about a boy named Sam Gribley that ran away from home. He ran away to the old Gribley Farm in the Catskill Mountains. He ran away because he didn’t like living in their cramped New York City apartment. This mountain range is near the town of Delhi. In the beginning of this book Sam sets out to find shelter, and he builds a home in a hemlock tree. Sam makes several friends that stumble upon him while they are hiking. Sam trains a falcon to harvest food for him. He lives off of the land. He only takes what he needs from the wilderness. Finally at the end of the book somebody important in his life comes to visit.
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
This book deserves 5 stars because I can really relate to this story, so I couldn’t stop reading it. This is one of my favorite books, if not the best.
Series: This series contains three books: My Side of the Mountain, On the Far Side of the Mountain, and Frightful’s Mountain.
-Elyk Renim
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