Reading order
Mountain reading order
1- 8.18.1 / 10198 ratings
- Score
- 3 volumes
- Volumes
- 1959–1999
- Published
- about 11 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Middle grade
- Genre
Quick answer
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Publication order
3 volumes1959–1999Completed
- My Side of the Mountain, a Newbery Honor book from 1959, follows Sam Gribley, a boy who runs away from his crowded New York City home to live alone in the Catskill Mountains, in a hollowed-out tree, with a peregrine falcon called Frightful.
- A classic of self-reliance and nature writing for young readers, and highly rated.
- The sequels, written decades later, are much less read.
A plan for the whole series
3 volumes, 605 pages, about 11 hours. At 45 min a day that is 15 days.
Stages
This series fits in one stage. You finish around November 13, 2026.
- Stage 111 h15 daysby November 13, 2026
- 1. My Side of the Mountain
- 2. On the Far Side of the Mountain
- 3. Frightful's Mountain
- The end of the series
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How this plan is calculated
The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →
Every volume in order
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which Mountain book is the longest?
“Frightful's Mountain” is the longest at 258 pages; the shortest is “On the Far Side of the Mountain” with 170 pages.
What should I read after Mountain?
Other series by Jean Craighead George: Julie of the Wolves.
