Frightful's Daughter

Title: Frightful's Daughter
Author: Jean George
The author's bio says that she also wrote My Side of the Mountain and is the author of over eighty books. She lives in Chappaqia, New York, and has an African gray parrot.
The cover is of a pair of falcons flying across the horizon, with a forest beneath them and mountains in the background.
Characters: Oski, Frightful, her brothers, the falcon thief, Sam Gribley, a goshawk, Falco, and Chip.
The setting is a mountainous forest, on the outskirts of a city.
Frightful's siblings are taken by a falcon thief, and she is left alone. With the help of a boy named Sam, she learns what she needs to do in order to survive. At the end of the story, she has a child of her own, but raises it in the forest instead of migrating.
The book:
has animals as characters
doesn't rhyme
doesn't teach a lesson of some kind
doesn't have monsters or creatures
Has both kids and adults as characters
doesn't use humor
has illustrations
uses color
doesn't use photos
has a sentimental/lovely tone
has lots of words per page
has one phrase repeated throughout "Oski did things her own way"

The most interesting sentence in the book was "The open skies and river courses, the vast seacoasts and high alpine tundras, were her's not the forest's"

I think this book would be better for 6-8 year olds, as it uses some tougher vocabulary that I think younger children wouldn't understand,a  and has a substantial amount of text.
I don't think I would have liked this book as a kid, because I was more into books that contained adventures and discoveries, not really the sentimental  values that were put into a book such as this.