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Frightful's Mountain
Frightful's Mountain
Author: Jean Craighead George
On the 40th anniversary of the children's classic My Side of the Mountain comes the extraordinary third book in the series — Frightful, the peregrine falcon, could not see. A falconer's hood covered her head and eyes. She remained quiet and calm, like all daytime birds in the dark. She could hear, however. She listened to the wind whistling t...  more »

So begins the third book in the wilderness series that has lifted imaginations around the world. Readers last heard from Sam Gribley a decade ago, when he kept the hardest resolution of his life and let his falcon partner go free. Now at last we pick up the story--but this time, the narrative continues through Frightful's keen-sighted eyes.

Raised by Sam, Frightful is an imprinted bird. She has no idea how to migrate, mate, or be a mother. She can barely even feed herself, for although she is a skilled hunter, it was always Sam who signaled permission to partake of the kill. Sam, so patient and kind, will support her from afar, and so will bird activists Jon and Susan Wood and conservationist Leon Longbridge. But despite a letter-writing campaign by local schoolchildren, others would despoil her Catskill home--designing fatal electrical wires and disturbing good nesting areas with jackhammers and paint trucks.

With evolution and a proud natural intelligence on her side, Frightful may yet beat the odds of famine, winter, and human encroachment. But her terrible longing for that one mountain among thousands, her first home--a longing so noble and generous yet so dangerous--will govern her to either heartbreaking failure or heart-aching triumph, a triumph so right and so natural that readers will want to take to the skies in celebration.

Jean Craighead George published My Side of the Mountain in 1959, a Newbery Honor Book and coming-of-age story that has enthralled and entertained generations of would-be Sams. This third book in the series shares--in exquisite, elegantly flowing prose--Frightful's own passage into adulthood, taking readers on a journey into the mind and spirit of one of the wild's most magnificent creations and proving once again why the author is considered the most gifted nature writer of her time.
ISBN-13: 9780525461661
ISBN-10: 0525461663
Publication Date: 9/1/1999
Pages: 258
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Publisher: Dutton Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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Beloved author who won Newberry Honors for first book in the trilogy comprising My Side of the Mountain, On the Other Side of the Mountain. This is the third book in the trilogy, written forty years after the first one. Adventure story about a boy and falconing.
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This is the third and most wonderful book in the series!! It is in good shape!
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My son really liked this book.
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Frightful's Mountain continues the adventure of Sam Gribley and his magnificent falcon, Frightful, from the fresh story of survival and independence, My Side of the Mountain. The soaring magnifence of both stories tugs at the strings of your heart, making you long to see the open skies and majestic mountains yourself.


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