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Middle Grade Book Subscription Box: July Box : The Trouble with Heroes & Call Me Adnan

Middle Grade Book Subscription Box: July Box : The Trouble with Heroes & Call Me Adnan

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Love Always, White Rose Subscription Box

Your Favorite Genres Wrapped in Love, Every Month

Love, Always, White Rose is White Rose Books & More's subscription service. Pick a genre and it will auto renew each month, or go in and change your genre anytime. 

Each month, you’ll choose from our ten carefully curated upcoming fiction paperback releases that center exciting story telling, perfect to help line the shelves of your TBR. Or choose a select hardcover for your child or a child you love. 

At just $20/month and FREE SHIPPING , this is perfect for readers on a budget looking for something new to read hand selected by the experts.

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About this month's selection:

This month you will receive 2 paperback books!

The Trouble with Heroes by Kate Messner

Bloomsbury Children's Books | Releasing on July 7, 2026

Bestselling and award-winning author Kate Messner takes readers on a heart-filling journey as a boy finds his path to healing.

 

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 Considered

Kirkus 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 Pick

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.

 


Call Me Adnan by Reem Faruqi

From HarperCollins, Out July 7, 2026

"An emotional tale of a family’s grief and healing, full of courage and hope" —Kirkus Reviews

"Faruqi renders this tender story of loss with a deft hand, employing vivid details surrounding Adnan’s Pakistani Muslim identity . . . and nuanced characterizations to present a tear-jerking ode to family." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"A realistic, moving exploration of family, loss, and healing." —ALA Booklist

"Faruqi takes on the difficult subject of family loss with beauty and grace in her gentle, lyrical style. She allows Adnan, a young table tennis enthusiast, to go through grief while holding not just sadness but love and joy, in an honest and nuanced story that is ultimately filled with hope." —Veera Hiranandani, Newbery Honor author of The Night Diary

For fans of Planet Omar and The Ethan I Was Before, award-winning Pakistani author Reem Faruqi of Unsettled delivers a middle grade novel in verse about table tennis player Adnan, who dreams of the championship and a fun-filled family trip to Florida. But when tragedy strikes, he and his family must cope with a terrible loss and come together as one again. This poignant story about a Muslim family learning to heal is hope-filled and moving. Now in paperback!

Adnan Zakir loves table tennis. He's also colorblind and left-handed and has a fondness for the aviation alphabet. He's super close with his sister, Aaliyah, who is a great dancer and memorizer of the Quran, and he loves his little toddler brother, Rizwan, who only wants to grow up and play table tennis like his big brother. 

All Adnan dreams of is making it to the Ultimate Table Tennis Championship in Florida, and if he qualifies for the tournament, he knows he will get to spend the Eid holiday with his cousins. But when the family travels there, unthinkable tragedy strikes, and Adnan swears he'll never play table tennis ever again. Slowly, he and his family must learn to make peace and move forward, as a family.

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection pick!

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