I cannot see it, but I know it's a bird because Frightful's feathers tell me so. This is called rousing, which is feather talk meaning 'I like you.'Īt peace with me and herself, she bobs her head as she follows the flight of a bird. She responds by lifting the feathers on her body, then shaking them. I also liked the descriptions of animal behavior that's woven into the story. I was very pleased with this story and how it was written. Any reader at a middle school level or higher should be able to read this book. I would recommend this book to any reader that enjoys stories involving wilderness and survival. Almost the entire story takes place in the woods, on “Sam’s Mountain.” The author does a great job describing the atmosphere of the woods at times and what is happening. At the rare times where Sam goes into the city, the city doesn’t seem to be like modern times.

I would guess that this story takes place during the 1990’s. The author expresses what each of the characters are thinking extremely well throughout the entire book. She isn’t scared of anything and she takes a lot of risks. Alice is a younger girl that likes to have a lot of fun and put Sam through trouble. He excels when it comes to problem solving and completing a task. Sam is a teenager who has left the city to live in the wilderness. The main characters of this book are Sam and Alice. They eventually get Alice to come down out of the tree and they start on their way back to their home. Sam and Bando finally catch up with Alice in the Catskill Mountains, where she is attempting to get a baby Falcon out of it’s nest while being attacked by the adult falcon. Sam and Bando find many more of Alice’s clues and meet many people on their way.

Sam meets up with his friend, Bando, and the two venture off in search of Alice.

But, one day Sam can not find Alice anywhere and eventually finds a clue from her showing which way she has gone. Sam and Alice live their everyday lives hunting, gathering and building structures to keep their lives livable. “On the Far Side of the Mountain” by Jean Craighead George, is about a teenage boy, Sam Gribley, who lives in the wilderness with his sister, Alice.

Frightful's mountain book