The Trouble with Heroes - Kate Messner

An instant New York Times bestseller!A USA Today bestseller!Read with Jenna Jr. Summer Reading List Pick!"Genuinely moving." --The New York Times Book Review"Explores the healing power of hiking." --NPR's All Things ConsideredKirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year | School Library Journal Best Book of the Year | Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year: Middle Grade | The Week Jr. Best Book of the Year | Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year | An NCTE Charlotte Huck Award Honor Book | The Week Jr.'s Book Club PickBestselling and award-winning author Kate Messner takes readers on a heart-filling journey as a boy finds his path to healing.One summer.46 mountain peaks.A second chance to make things right.Finn Connelly is nothing like his dad, a star athlete and firefighter hero who always ran toward danger until he died two years ago. Finn is about to fail seventh grade and has never made headlines . . . until now.Caught on camera vandalizing a cemetery, he's in big trouble for knocking down some dead old lady's headstone. Turns out that grave belongs to a legendary local mountain climber, and her daughter makes Finn an unusual offer: she'll drop all the charges if he agrees to climb all forty-six Adirondack High Peaks in a single summer. And there's just one more thing--he has to bring along the dead woman's dog.In a wild three months of misadventures, mountain mud, and unexpected mentors, Finn begins to find his way on the trails. At the top of each peak, he can see for m
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