The Mysterious Benedict Society part 2

        I'm sorry that I don't have another book to blog about, but I haven't been able to finish this one yet.  Where did I leave off?  Oh yes, I left off where Raynie just finished his first test.  Remember how I told you that he was nervous. Well, there was nothing really for him to be nervous about becasue he was the only one who passed the test in that class.  When the "Pencil woman"- the woman that Raynie nicknamed who gives out the tests- told the class this, they went balistic.  They were so distressed and confused that they were yelling all over the room, but in the end the finally left.  The Pencil woman told Raynie there was another test and that he must be at the Monk building at 12 o'clock and he can't be late or have more than one pencil or he will fail, and then she left.  Of course, she didn't tell him where this building was, as it is still part of the test, so Raynie went out to search.  When he finally finds the building, Raynie encounters a girl named Rhonda who lost her pencil down the gutter.  With nearly time running out Raynie makes the decision to help her.  He breaks his pencil and gives her the sharpened end, because the pencil woman said there would be a pencil sharpener at the testing area.  In return the girl offers the test answers to him, but he politely declines.  

      Upon recieving the test, Reynie wishes he should have taken those anwers; the questions were impossible.  In the end however, he follows directions and reads all of the questions and finds a pattern.  The answer to question number one is in question number 20.  He again, is the only one who passes the test, even though the girl had the answers; which puzzled Raynie.  Now he is told to wait there for others who passed.  He meets a shy boy named Sticky who didn't find the puzzle in the test and just knew the answers already, and a loud, adventurous girl named Kate; they all immediately become friends.  The wierd thing was that Sticky and Kate both encountered Rhonda too.  They try to ponder this, but can't come up with the correct reason why.
    After doing two more rediculous tests-one where they had to find their way through a house full of rooms that looked exactly the same, and another one where the had to make their way across a floor where they could only touch yellow squares- they were finally ushered into a room where they found out a little bit about what the heck was going on.  They also met a new comer named Constance.  If you want to know why they had to take those rediculous tests, then you should read the book! It is really interesting and the ideas for the tests are really cool; I don't understand how they came up with them.
     So Far I am in love with this book, it is like a mystery, because you never know what is going to happen! You would love the book too, and there are two more after this one, so give it a try.

The Author



This is the books official website: http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/features/mysteriousbenedictsociety/index.html

If you would like to purchase this book on amazon here is the link:
http://www.amazon.com/Mysterious-Benedict-Society-Trenton-Stewart/dp/0316003956

Barns and noble interview with the author, Trenton Lee Stewart:
http://media.barnesandnoble.com/?fr_story=b76229daab3e9d0539498b44eb4549bf835bf2cf&rf=sitemap