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Everybody called 7HW the 'Half Wit' class just because we couldn't read or write very well. It can be tough at the bottom - the teachers call you trouble makers and you never ever win anything on prize day. But Chalky, Roley, Matt and me had big plans. We were going to beat the Clever DIcks this year. Only everything started to go horribly wrong ... More

Everybody called 7HW the 'Half Wit' class just because we couldn't read or write very well. It can be tough at the bottom - the teachers call you trouble makers and you never ever win anything on prize day. But Chalky, Roley, Matt and me had big plans. We were going to beat the Clever DIcks this year. Only everything started to go horribly wrong and the next thing we knew Minty and his gang from 7CD was planning to annihilate us.

What can you do against a total freak of nature with a blackbelt, stinking breath and two nerd bodyguards for heaven's sake? Especially when you're on a school trip from hell, stuck in a blizzard miles from civilisation in an old diesel van that's going nowhere . . . !

IT'S HARD TO BE A HERO is a hilarious and heart-warming adventure about a dyslexic boy who dreams of winning the school prize. It is a contemporary tale about learning difficulties and the labels they carry and about life in the bottom class.

Rivalry and tension builds between the 'Half Wits' and the 'Clever Dicks' but when a school trip to Snowdonia goes disastrously wrong, hurtling the boys towards catastrophe, who will save the day?

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