Kids Book Index
Book record · Source entry 14
Kate Messner
The Trouble with Heroes is a novel in verse about Finn, who must hike all forty-six Adirondack High Peaks after damaging a tombstone and gradually confronts grief and trauma connected to his father’s death.
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