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The Labors of Hercules Beal TC_Bestseller O’Connell shows how the livesFrom 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 assignmentand learns about friendship, community, and himself along the way. Herc Beal knows who he's named aftera mythical herobut 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