Frightful's Mountian

Yah for Spring Break and lots of reading!  One of my outside readings I chose to dive into over break was Frightful's Mountain by Jean Craighead George.  It is the third book in a series of three, the first being My Side of the Mountain.  I read this one and the second recently, so I decided on the third as one of my chapter books.  The book is about a peregrine falcon named Frightful.  As the story opens, she has been captured by a man wanting to illegally sell her.  After she escapes she must decide whether to go back to Sam (her previous keeper) or migrate like the rest of her kind.  She continues to endure hard decisions that should be easy for a peregrine falcon, but they are made hard by her background in captivity.  Reading about her hardships brought forth the issue of how harmful it can be to wild animals to live under the eye of humans, even when it seems like the right thing to do at the time.  She not a normal bird, she has a hard time understanding her instincts, and she too easily gets involved with humans.  It made me wonder whether things would have been better for both Sam and Frightful if neither had ever come into contact with one another.  The underlying theme in the book is one that society must address in real life, not only in children's literature.  Overall, I enjoyed reading the book again, but liked it better the first time around.