On Monday and Tuesday I read Frightful's Mountain by Jean Craighead George. It is third book in a series and George has won numerous awards for various books in the series. The book is a very nice size with a good balance between big enough pages to be readable and small enough that it isn't cumbersome. I had bought the book new and had only read it once or twice since since so the pages were still very crisp making the pages easy to turn and enjoyable to read. The book is about a boy named Sam Gribley and a falcon named Frightful. I wondered what would inspire an author to write a series about falcons and so I did some research and found out that George, the author, is a falconer and has been fascinated with hawks and falcons, particularly falcons, since he was young so it was a very easy choice to write about them as well. The book itself was pretty interesting, it didn't keep me on the edge of my seat but I did enjoy reading it. It did stir up some emotions inside of me when I read it. I felt the thrill of the chase when the hawk is racing down its next meal, the joy when Frightful escapes from danger and bliss as Sam and Frightful bond into best of friends. I also felt the sorrow when three of Frightful's four eggs froze killing the baby falcons inside. I wonder why Frightful would leave her chick behind once it was old enough to fly? Why doesn't she bring it with her and teach it everything it needs to survive? Why is nature so brutal at times? But at the end of the book a new falcon came by and you learned that it was Frightfuls chick. It was nice to learn that it had survived and had grown up and was doing well. This book was pretty good and it is definately a good book to read if you like nature and birds of prey. I enjoyed reading it.