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Frightful's Mountain
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Overview
Frightful’s Mountain by Jean Craighead George is a middle-grade novel that follows My Side of the Mountain and On the Far Side of the Mountain, a series about nature and survival. Frightful is a peregrine falcon that is raised by a young teenager named Sam Gribley and then released to the wild at the end of the previous novel. In this novel, she struggles to survive on her own in the wild while looking for Sam and her former mountain home. Frightful’s Mountain was published in 1999 and includes themes such as The Balance of Nature, The Beauty and Wonder of Nature, and The Capability of Young People. This guide refers to the 2001 print edition.
Plot Summary
Frightful’s Mountain picks up toward the end of On the Far Side of the Mountain when Frightful locates Sam Gribley and his sister, Alice, at the Helderberg Escarpment, north of the Catskill Mountains in New York. Frightful had been taken from Sam by poachers named Bate and Skri a few days earlier, but Alice located her and set her free.
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