The Trouble with Heroes

The Trouble with Heroes

by Kate Messner
Publication Date: 29/04/2025

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Bestselling 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 miles and slowly begins to understand more about himself and his dad. But the mountains don't care about any of that, and as the clock ticks down to September, they have more surprises in store. Finn's final summit challenge may be more than even a hero can face.

ISBN:
9781547616404
9781547616404
Category:
Personal & social issues: family issues (Children's / Teenage)
Publication Date:
29-04-2025
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Kate Messner

Kate Messner is a former middle-school English teacher and the author of E. B. White Read Aloud Award winner The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z. and its companion, The Exact Location of Home; Sugar and Ice; Eye of the Storm; Wake Up Missing; All the Answers; The Seventh Wish; Capture the Flag; Hide and Seek; the Marty McGuire chapter book series; the Ranger in Time chapter book series; and several picture books. She lives on Lake Champlain with her husband and two kids.

When she's not reading or writing, she loves hiking, kayaking, biking, and watching thunderstorms over the lake.

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