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From award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt, a warm and witty novel in the tradition of The Wednesday Wars, in which a seventh grader has to figure out how to fulfill a seemingly impossible school assignment--and learns about friendship, community, and himself along the way. Herc Beal knows who he's named after--a mythical hero--but he's no superhero. He's the smallest kid in his class. So when his homeroom teacher at his new middle school gives him the assignment of duplicating the mythical Hercules's amazing feats in real life, he's skeptical. After all, there are no Nemean Lions on Cape Cod--and not a single Hydra in sight. Missing his parents terribly and wishing his older brother wasn't working all the time, Herc figures out how to take his first steps along the road that the great Hercules himself once walked. Soon, new friends, human and animal, are helping him. And though his mythical role model performed his twelve labors by himself, Herc begins to see that he may not have to go it alone.

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Gary D. Schmidt is the bestselling author of Orbiting Jupiter, The Labors of Hercules Beal; Just Like That; National Book Award finalist Okay for Now; the Newbery Honor and Printz Honor Book Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy; the Newbery Honor Book The Wednesday Wars, and more. He is also contributor to and co-editor of the acclaimed short story collection A Little Bit Super, co-edited by Leah Henderson, and the co-author, along with Ron Koertge, of A Day at the Beach. He lives in rural Michigan. Fred Berman is an award-winning audiobook narrator. He has appeared on Broadway in The Lion King and has performed in numerous off-Broadway and regional theater productions. His television credits include Smash, Law & Order, and All My Children.

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