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| Frightful's Mountain | 
| Author: Jean Craighead George
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 439559
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.8 x 1
ISBN: 0525461663
EAN: 9780525461661
ASIN: 0525461663
Publication Date: September 1, 1999
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Amazon.com Review
Fans of Jean Craighead George's My Side of the Mountain (a Newbery Honor Book) and On the Far Side of the Mountain will be delighted to return to upstate New York's Catskill Mountains for the conclusion of her trilogy, which appears 40 years after the first title's publication in 1959. Written because a young fan asked, "What happened to Frightful?" this volume tells how Sam Gribley's peregrine falcon--that's Frightful--has to make her own way in the world after Sam is forced to release her. Although told in the third person, the story is developed entirely from the bird's point of view. George's narrative follows the falcon through a series of dangerous adventures (involving DDT, electricity lines, and unscrupulous bird traders, to name a few) as she learns to depend on her own instincts. The environmental message is slightly heavy-handed, but it's wrapped in an enjoyable story from a much loved and astoundingly prolific author. You don't need to have read the earlier books to make sense of this one, though it may help. (Ages 9 and older) --Richard Farr
Product Description
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 through the pine needles. This wind-music conjured up images of a strange woods and unknown flowers. The sound was foreign. It was not the soft song of wind humming through the hemlock needles of home. Frightful was a long way from her familiar forest. Suddenly an all-invading passion filled her. She must go. She must find one mountain among thousands, one hemlock tree among millions, and the one boy who called himself Sam Gribley. The one mountain was her territory, the one tree was Sam's house, the perch beside it, her place. And Sam Gribley was life.
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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 27 more reviews...
My 10 year old nephew loved it! October 15, 2008
I bought this for my 10 yr old nephew and he loved it. I believe he finished the book in just a few days. He lvoes reading the Jean Craighead George books.
 My Review November 27, 2006
Frightful's Mountain by Jean Craighead George is a thriller that continues My Side of the Mountain and On the Far Side of the Mountain. This book is about Frightful, a domestic pergerine falcon in the wilderness. She learns to have young, eat right, and her instinct comes back to her.
This book is exciting because Frightful gets captured, she escapes, got injured, had young on a bridge, and meets a handsome male falcon. I would recommend this book to adults. I encourage adults to read the book, and animal lovers, too.
Good... but not as good as the first September 12, 2006
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I really liked this book, but I have to say, it is not as good as the first book. This book is about Frightful becoming a mother, and pretty much most of her life. I liked this book alot, even though I didn't like it as much as the first one.
 Only worth reading to complete the series... September 11, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a bad, bad book. I read 'My Side of the Mountain' numerous times as a child and throughout the years and never knew there were sequels which I happily raced off to request from my local library. The first book, published in 1959 and we as readers needed to assume that the story takes place at the time of the writing. Yet here in the third book, chronologically only two years after 'My Side', people now have push button phones, automated phone answering systems and cell phones. These anachronisms as well as the horribly stilted dialog (nearly insultingly simple in places and more reminiscent of Grammar School writing class than a world class novelist) ruin this book. I don't know what lead Ms. George to leap the story into the future but, at least in my opinion, it was a poorly thought out choice. 'On the Far Side of the Mountain' was a good if hard to believe sequel to 'My Side of the Mountain' this doesn't even come close to the quality or engaging read of the previous two. As my title says, this is only worth reading to complete the series. On it's own it's a poorly written, completely unbelievable story. I was terribly disappointed.
Survivor of the Wild November 23, 2005
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Frightful is now alone and away from Sam. She has been with Sam for years hunting and living with him. Without his help, she has to survive. After trying numerous times to migrate south, Frightful is left with no choice but to stay. Food is scarce and Frightful is having problems until Jon Wood takes her in. She was fried by a connection made between two wires by her. In the spring, she is let go to the wild again, this time it is mating season. She must find a mate or she might not survive. Will Frightful mate? Will she ever migrate south like the other Peregrines? Find out as you join Frightful in her journey to survive in the wild.
I liked many aspects of this book. I liked that the Author made you keep reading and kept you interested in the story throughout the novel. I also like that Frightful didn't die after being fried by the electric current. If she would have died the story would have ended to abruptly. I would not have liked this. I disliked some things in this book like the fact that Frightful didn't migrate south the first time in this book. It would have made the book more interesting and long.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes adventure and suspenseful books. I recommend you read the first two books in this series before this book. Those books lead up to this book.
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