The Labors of Hercules Beal

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Call Number: Kids Book / Fiction / General / Schmidt, Gary D., Y Fiction / Schmidt, Gary D.
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	Y Fiction / Schmidt, Gary D.	4-week checkout	Due 05-11-2024
Malletts Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Fiction / General / Schmidt, Gary D.	4-week checkout	Due 05-15-2024

"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."--Page [2] of cover..

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Gary Schmidt Never Fails submitted by cdeucher on June 19, 2023, 8:27pm This is a wonderful middle grade book. Hercules lives in the most beautiful place in the world but his parents have just died in a car crash and his brother begrudgingly comes back to run the family business leaving his job with National Geographic. How both brothers navigate this new family order and the grief that accompanies it is told in first person by Hercules. Schmidt is a Michigan author and his ability to capture character and setting always delights.