"Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George, Frightful and Oksi Run the Show–Afterword

In the third book of the My Side of the Mountain trilogy, Frightful is on her own in the wilderness, trying to survive without Sam.

Here are links to our lists for the novel: Foreword–Frightful Peregrinates, Frightful Finds the Enemy–There are Eggs and Trouble, The Kids are Heard–A Pal Finds a Pal, Frightful and Oksi Run the Show–Afterword

Here are links to our lists for the My Side of the Mountain trilogy by Jean Craighead George: My Side of the Mountain, On the Far Side of the Mountain, Frightful's Mountain

And here is a link to Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George.
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  1. balmy
    mild and pleasant
    “Are you sleeping out tonight, Jessie?” Sam asked. “That’s a good idea. Think I will, too. It’s a balmy night.”
  2. lugubrious
    excessively mournful
    A screech owl awoke and called, the barred owl by the mill house hooted, and from far away, he heard the lugubrious voice of Mole reporting his progress in a game of “catch the fox,” a game both animals thoroughly enjoyed.
  3. undaunted
    resolutely courageous
    Undaunted by the night’s scare, Oksi stood up and watched the awakening birds.
  4. oblivious
    lacking conscious awareness of
    Oksi was oblivious to this chatter.
  5. agenda
    an organized plan for matters to be attended to
    She had her own agenda with her world, and Frightful was the first to discover it.
  6. emphatically
    in a forceful manner; with emphasis
    “Yes,” said Molly emphatically, “or she won’t come back next year.
  7. profusely
    in very large amounts or quantities; extremely
    The talon cut on his head was bleeding profusely.
  8. severe
    causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
    Sam washed it with cold water, saw it was not severe, and patched it with jewelweed leaves to stop the flow of blood.
  9. rapacious
    devouring or craving food in great quantities
    She ate rapaciously.
  10. paternalism
    attitude that people should be controlled in a fatherly way
    Chup saw them, but he felt not one iota of paternalism.
  11. vermin
    any of various small animals or insects that are pests
    They soared with her out over the countryside, learning to catch rats, mice, and pigeons. They became expert vermin hunters until Blue Bill found a cliff near the Pepacton Reservoir.
  12. lustrous
    brilliant
    Her new feathers were darker and more lustrous than last year’s.
  13. lethargy
    inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy
    Mole was in the tree snoozing on Sam’s bed, and Jessie Coon James was in a hollow, dozing in winter lethargy.
  14. tureen
    a large deep serving dish with a cover
    Sam and Alice were sitting around a small fire, cracking hickory nuts and putting the meats in clay tureens for the winter.
  15. wispy
    thin and weak
    Frightful hopped from limb to limb until she reached the wispy top of the ancient hemlock.
  16. bearing
    the direction or path along which something moves or lies
    She turned her head slowly as she took a bearing on the sun’s rays.
  17. longitude
    the angular distance from the prime meridian at Greenwich
    She fixed on a longitude between ninety and seventy degrees.
  18. indelible
    not able to be forgotten, removed, or erased
    After many takes, the direction was indelibly printed on her brain.
  19. prevailing
    most frequent or common
    She rode the prevailing wind over the familiar mountains and rivers and beyond the Catskills into unknown territory.
  20. gusto
    vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment
    “Peregrine!” a man on the top of Hook Mountain shouted with gusto.
  21. buttress
    a support usually of stone or brick
    The tree had grown great buttresses to support it in storms and in the watery soil.
  22. streamline
    contour economically or efficiently
    Gripping with all his strength, Drum faced into the storm, his streamlined body minimizing the wind.
  23. glean
    gather, as of natural products
    Not three feet from Frightful, seven little black Darwin cactus finches were busily gleaning food.
  24. listless
    marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm
    She was watching them, growing listless from hunger, when a wheeling flock of sanderlings and whimbrels from the continent flew past.
  25. steep
    having a sharp inclination
    She crossed the water to Gardner’s Island and alighted on a steep lava cliff of cracks and niches.
  26. pelt
    rain heavily
    That night a downpour pelted the cliff side.
  27. solstice
    when the sun is at its greatest distance from the equator
    On December 21, the day of the winter solstice, something happened to Frightful.
  28. complacent
    contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions
    She lingered uncertainly among complacent woodpeckers from the north.
  29. laborious
    characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion
    Around her, gulls screamed and pelicans flapped laboriously.
  30. albatross
    a large web-footed bird noted for powerful gliding flight
    Then the land birds vanished and she saw only birds of the open ocean, the albatrosses and snowy terns.
  31. errant
    moving in an uncontrolled, irregular, or unpredictable way
    To save energy, she flapped her wings strongly, then soared for long periods on the errant winds.
  32. fateful
    predetermined
    Taking another reading on the sun’s rays, feeling the magnetic pull of the earth, she flew north on the fateful ninety-degree line headed for Wisconsin.
  33. span
    a bridge
    The span was relatively quiet.
  34. resolute
    firm in purpose or belief
    Atop the nest box, Frightful sat still—resolute.
  35. fictitious
    formed or conceived by the imagination
    All the other characters are fictitious. The mountains are not.
Created on Mon Aug 03 20:37:22 EDT 2015 (updated Tue Sep 11 10:39:02 EDT 2018)

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