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size Search Our Catalog  2011 Book # 43: The Mysterious Benedict
Society  I generally like kids' novels - Harry Potter, for
instance, or The Hunger Games, or The Golden Compass, or The
Blue Sword, etc, etc, etc. I think it's because I can usually
identify with the characters, and an adult having written them
probably helps. That said, The Mysterious Benedict Society
didn't work for me. It might be aimed at a younger crowd than
I'm used to, though these kids are 11 and 12, and Harry Potter
started out at that age. I was also somewhere around 18 at that
point - certainly nowhere near 30.  The Mysterious Benedict
Society is about four kids, all of them basically orphans, who
see an add in the newspaper offering adventures to kids who can
pass a test. They're the only for who pass, and they're taken to
a large house and, eventually, told what's going on: There's a
Bad Guy who is sending out subliminal messages saying that he is
awesome and that they sho