![]() ![]() ![]() But Sam is devastated when a so-called conservation officer confiscates Frightful, and then to make life more complicated for him, his sister disappears. The second book, On the Far Side of the Mountain, is about when Sam’s younger sister, Alice, joins him on the mountain, making a home of her own in a nearby tree. And to my delight, while we were reading it, I discovered that its author, Jean Craighead George, wrote two sequels to My Side of the Mountain. I knew I had to read this book to my eldest son, who is 10 years old, and I hoped he would like it as much as I did. ![]() He also becomes friends with The Baron, a weasel, learns the ways of other forest animals, and meets some interesting people, too. He learns to live off the land, and he captures and raises a peregrine falcon, named Frightful, to help him hunt. I wanted to be Sam Gribley, a fifteen-year-old boy who lives alone in a tree in the Catskill Mountains. When I was a young girl, I read My Side of the Mountain, and it instantly became one of my favorite books. ![]()
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