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Frightful's mountain / written and illustrated by Jean Craighead George ; with a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 5927
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- George, Jean Craighead, 1919-2012, author, illustrator.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peregrine falcon--Juvenile fiction.
- Peregrine falcon.
- Falcons--Juvenile fiction.
- Falcons.
- Wildlife conservation--New York (State)--Juvenile fiction.
- Wildlife conservation.
- New York (State)--Juvenile fiction.
- New York (State).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 258 pages : illustrations, map ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scholastic Inc., 2001.
- Summary:
- As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon named 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.5
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Dutton Children's Books, ©1999.
- "This edition is only available for distribution through the school market"--Page [4] of cover.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- ISBN:
- 0439329159
- 9780439329156
- 0439209110
- 9780439209113
- OCLC:
- 48070998
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