Heres a pick thats both timeless and timely.

Herc Beal knows who hes named aftera mythical herobut hes no superhero. Hes the smallest kid in his class. So when his homeroom teacher at his new middle school gives him the assignment of duplicating the mythical Herculess amazing feats in real life, hes skeptical. After all, there are no Nemean Lions on Cape Codand not a single Hydra in sight. Missing his parents terribly and wishing his older brother wasnt 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.

Its the kind of addition youll wonder how you lived without.