The summer of the falcon / by Jean Craighead George ; illustrated by the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

George, Jean Craighead, 1919-2012.

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Falcons--Juvenile fiction.

Falcons.

Adolescence--Juvenile fiction.

Adolescence.

Families--Juvenile fiction.

Families.

Families--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Henry School (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

153 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : T.Y. Crowell, [1962]

Summary:

In the fields surrounding the wonderful Victorian house where her family spent the summers, June Pritchard trained her sparrow hawk, Zander. The bird was her own, a gift from her brothers who had trained their own falcons and who encouraged June to develop her bird as a hunter - not a pet.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has partially illegible dated 20th-century ms. prize inscription ("Henry School Credit Prize March 1968 E. [...] [...]") on front free endpaper.

Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

OCLC:

645016