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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
"Join a young girl and her father, the falconer at a medieval castle, as they experience the joys of taking a goshawk out for a training flight. The girl leads readers through all the preparations and equipment needed for the flight -- from falconer's glove to the hawk's hood and bells -- culminating in a dramatic demonstration of the hawk's hunting skills." -- From dust jacket.
5) The goshawk
Author
Language
English
Description
The predecessor to Helen Macdonald's H Is for Hawk, T. H. White's nature-writing classic, The Goshawk, asks the age-old question: What is it that binds human beings to other animals? White, author of The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham's Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. A particular sentence -- the bird reverted to a feral state -- seized his imagination, and, White later wrote, "A longing...
Author
Language
English
Description
An award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery.
"As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle...
Author
Series
Young Merlin trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
A foundling rediscovers his identity through the help of the falconer who adopts him.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A rollicking true-crime adventure about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs--and the wildlife detective determined to stop him"--
On May 3, 2010, Irish national Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain's Birmingham International Airport with a suspicious parcel strapped to his stomach. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine falcon eggs snatched from a remote cliffside in Wales. Hammer follows the parallel lives of a globe-trotting smuggler...
17) Of a feather
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A baby great horned owl, Second, so called because his sister, First, is already out of the nest, is reluctant to hunt for himself, but when his mother is injured he is forced out into the forest; Maureen is a human girl pulled out of her grandmother's violent home and placed with an aunt--but her Aunt Beatrice is involved in falconry and runs a mews where injured raptors can heal, and it is here Maureen and Second (now called Rufus) meet and learn...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Kazakh
Description
Follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter, and rises to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been typically been handed down from father to son for centuries.
19) The hooded hawke
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Leaving London for a journey around the country, Queen Elizabeth I and her court, accompanied by a young Francis Drake, are confronted by someone shooting arrows at the queen and the captain, both of whom have cousins who may want them dead.
20) A witness above
Author
Publisher
Signet, Published by New American Library
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English