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Frightful's mountain  Cover Image Book Book

Frightful's mountain / written and illustrated by Jean Craighead George ; with a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Summary:

As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon called Frightful interacts with various humans, including the boy who raised her, a falconer who rescues her, and several unscrupulous poachers, as well as with many animals that are part of the area's ecological balance.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0525461663
  • ISBN: 0141312351 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0606212035 (Turtleback)
  • Physical Description: xii, 258 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Dutton Children's Books, [1999]

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
5.8 Follett Library Resources
640 Lexile.
Subject: Peregrine falcons > Juvenile fiction.
Peregrine falcons > Fiction.
Ture falcons > Fiction.
Wildlife conservation > Fiction.
New York (State) > Fiction.
Peregrine falcons > Fiction.
True falcons > Fiction.
Wildlife conservation > Fiction.
New York (State) > Fiction.

Available copies

  • 45 of 47 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 47 total copies.
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Foreword ix
Frightful Takes Off
5(15)
Frightful Goes to Falcon School
20(12)
The Eyases Get on Wing
32(10)
The Wilderness Tests the Eyases
42(8)
Frightful Peregrinates
50(12)
Frightful Finds the Enemy
62(7)
Disaster Leads to Survival
69(13)
Hunger Is Frightful's Teacher
82(10)
Frightful Finds Sam
92(20)
There Are Eggs and Trouble
112(11)
The Kids Are Heard
123(13)
There Are Three
136(15)
Sam Takes Charge
151(9)
Sam Battles Bird Instincts
160(12)
A Pal Finds A Pal
172(23)
Frightful and Oksi Run The Show
195(16)
Frightful Feels The Call To The Sky
211(15)
The Earth Calls Frightful
226(19)
Destiny Is On Wing
245(12)
Afterword 257


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