How would you feel if your company, pet and friend was taken from you?

1. How would you feel if your company, pet and friend was taken from you?

3. That is how Sam Gribley felt in On the Far Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

5. Sam Gribley is a young, smart and adventurous boy

7. He lives in the Catskill mountains where he ran away from his parents

9. His Peregrine Falcon, Frightful, is his friend, pet, company and she hunts for him.

11. Alice is his sister that now lives in the wild with him

13. She is smart, generous and adventurous

14. A physics teacher nick-named Bando comes and visits Sam every once in a while

16. He is high maintenance, but outdoorsy.

17. One day the park officer pulls up and takes Frightful, an endangered species, away from Sam

19. Sam tries everything he can to get her back…

20. NO LUCK!

22. He now can no longer get food for himself

23. He is also depressed and lonely

24. But he makes a sling and practices to get food

26. Just as things are getting back to normal, Alice leaves

28. She goes looking for a new refuge

29. Bando and Sam set out to find her

31. She leaves hints to where she is going

32. Sam knows that an acorn on top of a rock is Alice’s “signature”

33. After many days of looking and hiking, they finally find her

35. They also find illegal raptor sellers and Sam sees the man that took Frightful

36. Frightful is dead

37. He is dead!

38. The cops come and arrest them

39. But then… Sam sees Frightful flying above them

40. He is alive! 

41. Alice saw Frightful earlier and cut her free from her leashes

42. There will now be wild Peregrine Falcons on the mountains again

44. Sam learned to never stop believing

45. By Philip Stollsteimer Period 6 reading