Middle grades fiction – Mrs. Hudson Reads

Teens Race to Save Falcons

On the Far Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George In her sequel to My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George opens with 16 year old Sam Gribley’s falcon, Frightful, being confiscated by a conservation officer. On top of that, his 14 year old sister, Alice, who joined him in his wilderness homeContinue reading “Teens Race to Save Falcons”

Teen Survives in the Wilderness

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George 15 year old Sam Gribley ran away from home one day in May. He was tired of living in a cramped apartment in New York City with 8 siblings and his parents. His father told him about land that his great-great- grandfather owned in somewhere inContinue reading “Teen Survives in the Wilderness”