Mountaintop Rescue

High Sierra Adventure #4

by Jeff Nesbit

Josh's respect and love of nature is put to the test when the survival of baby eagles is left up to him. Josh mounts a daring mountaintop rescue to save the baby eagles and teach them how to survive in the wilderness on their own. But his decision to free them places his own life in jeopardy. Has he made the wrong choice?

161 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

[Glen · Rating 3 out of 5]

When he witnesses poachers shoot at Golden Eagles (very illegal), a kid and his dog go to the rescue.

A lot of melodrama, but kids of a certain maturity level should like it.