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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