The labors of Hercules Beal
Record details
- ISBN: 0358659639 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780358659631 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
347 pages ; 22 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
Target Audience Note: | Ages 8-12. Clarion Books. Grades 4-6. Clarion Books. |
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Subject: | Mythology Fiction Schools Fiction Middle schools Fiction Friendship Fiction Brothers Fiction Orphans Fiction |
Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at Kenton County.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Covington Branch | J SCHMI G (Text) | 33126022638237 | JFiction | Available | - |
Erlanger Branch | J SCHMI G (Text) | 33126022638294 | JFiction | Available | - |
Independence Branch | J SCHMI G (Text) | 33126022638286 | JFiction | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Seventh-grader Hercules Beal has to figure out how to fulfill his teacher's assignment of performing the Twelve Labors of Hercules in real life, and discovers important things about friendship, community, and himself along the way. - Baker & Taylor
Given an assignment to duplicate the mythical feats of Hercules in real life, Herc Beal, the smallest kid in his class, figures out how to take his first steps and discovers that, unlike his namesake, he doesnât have to go it alone. 75,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook. - HARPERCOLL
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 an assignment to perform the Twelve Labors of Hercules in real lifeâand makes discoveries about friendship, community, and himself along the way.
Herc Beal knows who he's named afterâa mythical heroâbut 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 Codâand 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.