The Mysterious Benedict Society was written by Trenton Lee Stewart. It was illustrated by Carson Ellis, and was published in 2007. You can get the book at the Brookfield Public Library. It is the first book in a series of four.The Mysterious Benedict Society is about four children who take tests with really hard and really mysterious questions. These four children, Reynard (Reynie), George (Sticky, because everything he reads sticks in his head), Kate, and Constance, are the only ones that pass the tests. Mr. Benedict - the one who designed the tests - knows there are messages that are going to be broadcast into people's minds and cause eternal discomfort, especially for Constance. So he makes the four kids into a group and sends them to The Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is there are no rules. They act as spies for him, finding out what they can and reporting it to him. The boys become messengers, getting sessions in the Whisperer (what Mr. Curtain, the sender, is using to broadcast the messages). Kate gets daring and finds out what she can. Constance just gets crankier every day.
My favorite part of The Mysterious Benedict Society is when Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance are trying to confuse the Whisperer. Constance gets in the Whisperer, and when it told her to think different things like her name and what she was afraid of, she said,"No! I won't! Uh-uh! You can't make me! I... Don't....CARE!" Can Constance resist the Whisperer? Can she confuse it ? Will the entire world be saved? Find the answers in this book, The Mysterious Benedict Society.
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