Frightful's Mountain
By: written and illustrated by Jean Craighead George ; with a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Dutton Children's Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 258
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: Peregrine falcon -- Juvenile fiction; Peregrine falcon -- Fiction; Falcons -- Fiction; Wildlife conservation -- Fiction; New York (State) -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: 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.
Table of contents: label: Foreword
pagenum: ix; label: Frightful Takes Off
pagenum: 5; label: Frightful Goes to Falcon School
pagenum: 20; label: The Eyases Get on Wing
pagenum: 32; label: The Wilderness Tests the Eyases
pagenum: 42; label: Frightful Peregrinates
pagenum: 50; label: Disaster Leads to Survival
pagenum: 69; label: Hunger Is Frightful's Teacher
pagenum: 82; label: Frightful Finds Sam
pagenum: 92; label: There Are Eggs and Trouble
pagenum: 112; label: The Kids Are Heard
pagenum: 123; label: There Are Three
pagenum: 136; label: Sam Takes Charge
pagenum: 151; label: Sam Battles Bird Instincts
pagenum: 160; label: A Pal Finds A Pal
pagenum: 172; label: Frightful and Oksi Run the Show
pagenum: 195; label: Frightful Feels the Call to the Sky
pagenum: 211; label: The Earth Calls Frightful
pagenum: 226; label: Destiny Is on Wing
pagenum: 245; label: Afterword
pagenum: 257