Setting the Trap

High Sierra Adventure #3

by Jeff Nesbit

Someone is setting illegal traps in the High Sierras, and when Josh finds the raccoon he has befriended caught in a cruel trap, he decides to start a crusade to save the animals--and discover the identity of the vicious trapper.

160 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1994

About the author

JEFF NESBIT was the public affairs chief for five Cabinet departments or agencies under four presidents and the communications director to former GOP Vice President Dan Quayle. He was most recently the assistant secretary for public affairs at HHS and the deputy commissioner for communications at the Social Security Administration in the Biden-Harris administration.
Nesbit was also the founder and executive director of Climate Nexus; a nationally recognized climate communications non-profit; and a strategic communications advisor to media, health, science, tech, academic, corporate and non-profit clients including the Discovery Channel networks, Yale University, Lockheed Martin, the American Heart Association, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Porter Novelli and the American Red Cross.
He has been a contributing writer to The New York Times, Time magazine and Axios, and wrote a weekly science, health and tech column called “At the Edge” for U.S. News & World Report for nearly a decade. He’s written 33 books, including Poison Tea and This is the Way the World Ends with St. Martin’s Press.

Reviews

[Joy · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was decent for a book of this nature, appealing to tween boys. There are some good nuggets of information mixed in, so not too fluffy. This one has a bit more if a mystery aspect than #2 in this series.