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Author George, Jean Craighead, 1919-2012, author, illustrator.

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

Publication Info. New York : Harper & Row, 1979.
©1962

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA Fic George Sum 1979    Available  ---  Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo
Edition 1st Harper Trophy ed.
Description 153 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
age Children
Note "A Harper Trophy book"
Summary In the fields surrounding the Victorian house where her family spends the summer, June Pritchard trains her sparrow hawk, Zander, and her successful training of Zander teaches her about the intricacies of falconry, and broadens her knowledge of the natural world and herself.
Contents Pritchard's -- The Jesses -- The Cave -- Trained -- The Solo -- The Falcon Hunt -- The Housekeeper -- The Flood -- The Meet -- The Nest in the Meadow -- The Bolt of Organdy.
Provenance Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo
Subject Falcons -- Juvenile fiction.
Falcons.
Adolescence -- Juvenile fiction.
Adolescence.
Genre/Form Juvenile works.
Fiction.
Fiction.
ISBN 0064400956
9780064400954