My Side of the Mountain (1959) (edit title/settings)

Hannah C edited the summary of My Side of the Mountain Thursday, April 19, 2012.

• Sam Gribley was an average boy in New York City until he decided to run away. He ran off to his great grandfathers property in the Catskill mountains. He only left with a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel. There heOn the mountains,he makes a house out of a tree and hunts for food. His best friend is a duck hawkperegrine falcon that he caught when she was a baby and herbaby. Her name is frightful. He'sFrightful. Sam is living a good life until all ofthese random people are coming and taking pictures of himand writing stories about him willhim. Will he be able to live out in the wildernesswilderness, or will the police send him home.home?

Huttom1 edited the summary of My Side of the Mountain Wednesday, August 17, 2011.

• Sam Gribley runs away from his homewas an average boy in New York City until he decided to run away. He ran off to his great grandfathers property in the month of May.Catskill mountains. He leavesonly left with onlya penknife, a ball of cord, a hatchet, $40 he had saved selling magazine subscriptions,forty dollars, and asome flint and steel set thatsteel. There he had purchased atmakes a Chinese merchant's store.

  Sam getshouse out of a ride with a man driving a truck north of New York in search of his family's abandonedtree and overgrown farm in the Catskill Mountains. He hikes to the Catskills and spendshunts for food. His best friend is a lonely first night in his small hemlock lean-to (a small tent-like structureduck hawk that consists of a hemlock bough and a stump). He catches five trout, but fails to start a fire to cook them.

  In the morning,he climbscaught when she was a hillbaby and discoversher name is frightful. He's living a small cottage near his cold and uncomfortable camp—it's the residencegood life until all of an old man named Bill. Bill shows the inexperienced Sam how to preparethese random people are coming and cook his fish and, more importantly, how to make proper usetaking pictures of the flinthim and steel with which Sam had been unable to make a fire the night before. Unfortunately, the waywriting stories about him will he acts tells the reader that Bill has low confidence in Sam.

  Finding the Gribley farm, Sam establishes a dwelling in the stump of an immense old hemlock tree. He uses hand-axe and firebe able to expand a natural hollow into a home with space for a bed, stores of gathered foodstuffs, and even a small fireplace.

  As the summer passes, his skills and knowledge of the mountains and of survival grow. He learns tolive off the land by hunting small game and deer and by gathering a wide variety of edible plants and nuts. He makes clothes, bedding, and other useful things from deer hide and rabbit fur.

  Sam lives a free lifeout in the wilderness for more than a year with his pet, a peregrine falcon named Frightful, whom he had captured as a chick and hand-reared. His neighbors in the forest include the free-ranging musteline "Baron" Weasel, and a raccoon he names Jessie Coon James. Sam also encounters and "rescues" a lost school teacher whom he nicknames "Bando" because he'd first thought the teacher had been a runaway criminal when they'd met. Bando calls Sam "Thoreau". Bando and "Thoreau" spend the summer together, at the close of which Bando departs, promising to return at Christmas.

  During the winter, Sam's father comes out to the Gribley farm in search of him. Sam, his father, and Bando enjoy a wilderness Christmas dinner, after which the visitors bid farewell, both men approving of the youngster's independence and determination to continue his life on the mountain.

  After winter, Sam finds himself carving out a nearby tree as a "guest house," reflecting after a bit that his work to such a purpose was something of a contradiction of the reason he'd decided to come to the wild in the first place. He spent much of the spring with a boy he nicknames "Mr. Jacket".

  At that point, he hears his father, and his mother after, at the foot of the mountain, discovering that his parents had decided to come as a family—with all of Sam's younger siblings—to the old homestead, away from the city. Since Sam didn't want to come home, his mother decided to bring home to him.

  As the book closes, the Gribley family begins building the house thator will shelter them all inthe years to come.police send him home.

Raven Whitethorn-Queen of the Birds~I Don't Understand Your Reasons, Please Just Stay Until The Weekend edited the summary of My Side of the Mountain Saturday, March 12, 2011.

• Sam Gribley runs away from his home in New York City in the month of May. He leaves with only a penknife, a ball of cord, a hatchet, and$40 he had saved selling magazine subscriptions, and a flint and steel set that he had purchased at a Chinese merchant's store.

  Sam gets a ride with a man driving a truck north of New York in search of his family's abandoned and overgrown farm in the Catskill Mountains. He hikes to the Catskills and spends a lonely first night in his small hemlock lean-to (a small tent-like structure that consists of a hemlock bough and a stump). He catches five trout, but fails to start a fire to cook them.

  In the morning, he climbs a hill and discovers a small cottage near his cold and uncomfortable camp—it's the residence of an old man named Bill. Bill shows the inexperienced Sam how to prepare and cook his fish and, more importantly, how to make proper use of the flint and steel with which Sam had been unable to make a fire the night before. Unfortunately, the way he acts tells the reader that Bill has low confidence in Sam.

  Finding the Gribley farm, Sam establishes a dwelling in the stump of an immense old hemlock tree. He uses hand-axe and fire to expand a natural hollow into a home with space for a bed, stores of gathered foodstuffs, and even a small fireplace.

  As the summer passes, his skills and knowledge of the mountains and of survival grow. He learns to live off the land by hunting small game and deer and by gathering a wide variety of edible plants and nuts. He makes clothes, bedding, and other useful things from deer hide and rabbit fur.

  Sam lives a free life in the wilderness for more than a year with his pet, a peregrine falcon named Frightful, whom he had captured as a chick and hand-reared. His neighbors in the forest include the free-ranging musteline "Baron" Weasel, and a raccoon he names Jessie Coon James. Sam also encounters and "rescues" a lost school teacher whom he nicknames "Bando" because he'd first thought the teacher had been a runaway criminal when they'd met. Bando calls Sam "Thoreau". Bando and "Thoreau" spend the summer together, at the close of which Bando departs, promising to return at Christmas.

  During the winter, Sam's father comes out to the Gribley farm in search of him. Sam, his father, and Bando enjoy a wilderness Christmas dinner, after which the visitors bid farewell, both men approving of the youngster's independence and determination to continue his life on the mountain.

  After winter, Sam finds himself carving out a nearby tree as a "guest house," reflecting after a bit that his work to such a purpose was something of a contradiction of the reason he'd decided to come to the wild in the first place. He spent much of the spring with a boy he nicknames "Mr. Jacket".

  At that point, he hears his father, and his mother after, at the foot of the mountain, discovering that his parents had decided to come as a family—with all of Sam's younger siblings—to the old homestead, away from the city. Since Sam didn't want to come home, his mother decided to bring home to him.

  As the book closes, the Gribley family begins building the house that will shelter them all in the years to come.

Storm edited the summary of My Side of the Mountain Sunday, August 8, 2010.

• A young boy relatesSam Gribley runs away from his adventures duringhome in New York City in the yearmonth of May. He leaves with only a penknife, a ball of cord, a hatchet, and $40 he had saved selling magazine subscriptions, and a flint and steel set that he had purchased at a Chinese merchant's store.

  Sam gets a ride with a man driving a truck north of New York in search of his family's abandoned and overgrown farm in the Catskill Mountains. He hikes to the Catskills and spends alone livinga lonely first night in his small hemlock lean-to (a small tent-like structure that consists of a hemlock bough and a stump). He catches five trout, but fails to start a fire to cook them.

  In the morning, he climbs a hill and discovers a small cottage near his cold and uncomfortable camp—it's the residence of an old man named Bill. Bill shows the inexperienced Sam how to prepare and cook his fish and, more importantly, how to make proper use of the flint and steel with which Sam had been unable to make a fire the night before. Unfortunately, the way he acts tells the reader that Bill has low confidence in Sam.

  Finding the Gribley farm, Sam establishes a dwelling in the Catskill Mountains, includingstump of an immense old hemlock tree. He uses hand-axe and fire to expand a natural hollow into a home with space for a bed, stores of gathered foodstuffs, and even a small fireplace.

  As the summer passes, his skills and knowledge of the mountains and of survival grow. He learns to live off the land by hunting small game and deer and by gathering a wide variety of edible plants and nuts. He makes clothes, bedding, and other useful things from deer hide and rabbit fur.

  Sam lives a free life in the strugglewilderness for survival,more than a year with his pet, a peregrine falcon named Frightful, whom he had captured as a chick and hand-reared. His neighbors in the forest include the free-ranging musteline "Baron" Weasel, and a raccoon he names Jessie Coon James. Sam also encounters and "rescues" a lost school teacher whom he nicknames "Bando" because he'd first thought the teacher had been a runaway criminal when they'd met. Bando calls Sam "Thoreau". Bando and "Thoreau" spend the summer together, at the close of which Bando departs, promising to return at Christmas.

  During the winter, Sam's father comes out to the Gribley farm in search of him. Sam, his father, and Bando enjoy a wilderness Christmas dinner, after which the visitors bid farewell, both men approving of the youngster's independence and determination to continue his dependencelife on nature,the mountain.

  After winter, Sam finds himself carving out a nearby tree as a "guest house," reflecting after a bit that his work to such a purpose was something of a contradiction of the reason he'd decided to come to the wild in the first place. He spent much of the spring with a boy he nicknames "Mr. Jacket".

  At that point, he hears his animal friends,father, and his ultimate realizationmother after, at the foot of the mountain, discovering that his parents had decided to come as a family—with all of Sam's younger siblings—to the old homestead, away from the city. Since Sam didn't want to come home, his mother decided to bring home to him.

  As the book closes, the Gribley family begins building the house that he needs human companionship.will shelter them all in the years to come.

AllanaS edited the summary of My Side of the Mountain Wednesday, August 26, 2009.

• A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends alone living in the Catskill Mountains, including the struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate relizationrealization that he needs human companionship.

Madeline edited the summary of My Side of the Mountain Sunday, August 16, 2009.

• A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends alone living in the Catskill Mountains, including the struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate relization that he needs human companionship.