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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 5926
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- George, Jean Craighead, 1919-2012, author, illustrator.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peregrine falcon--Fiction.
- Peregrine falcon.
- Falcons--Fiction.
- Falcons.
- Wildlife conservation--Fiction.
- Wildlife conservation.
- New York (State)--Fiction.
- New York (State).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 258, [2] pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Puffin Books, 2001.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- ISBN:
- 0141312351
- 9780141312354
- 9781435284418
- 1435284410
- 0613359488
- 9780613359481
- OCLC:
- 47178708
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