Frightful's Mountain is a 259 page story by Jean Craighead George. It is about a boy who lives alone in the woods with a semi-domesticated peregrine falcon named Frightful. Frightful must migrate south in order to survive the winter. However she goes the wrong way and ends up flying towards New York City. Two falconers see that she is going the wrong way and keep her at the falconry place until it is time for Frightful to live wildly in the woods again. When she goes back to Sam, he notices that she is more wild than she had been in the past. Frightful mates with another bird. They nest and have babies on a bridge that is being repaired. Two kids protest the bridge work, telling the workers to wait until they are done raising the babies. The protest is a success, but two of the three babies are stolen by fake falconers. Sam and the police get the babies back to Frightful. Although Frightful is not as attached to Sam anymore, she still has a bond with him that can never be broken no matter how wild she gets. This is the third and final book in a series. I recommend it to anyone who loves books about nature.
Have you read the first two books?
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