FANDOM NAME: Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart WHAT IS IT: 3 300-400 ish page books. (There's also a prequel and sequel to the trilogy, but my requests will be focusing on Mysterious Benedict Society, Perilous Journey, and Prisoner's Dilemma WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: Four smart kids must work together to save the world! The main four are all different types of smart, and they have realistic flaws, interpersonal skills, and risk assesment abilities for kids their age. It's also well established why the only choice for stopping Curtain is the kids. The main four protagonists are Reynie, an orphan who is good with puzzles and languages; Sticky, a runaway with an eidetic memory; Constance, the most stubborn of the four; and Kate, who ran away from an orphanage to join the circus. She's the most physically adept of the four, carrying a number of useful objects in a bright red bucket attached to her belt, and also has some deeply buried abandonment issues. The main adult characters are also a lot of fun. You have Mr Benedict (which the titular society is named for), who recruits the main four; he's narcoleptic and occasionally falls asleep laughing at his own jokes. There's also his two adoptive daugters who he met during previous attempts to recruit a team, Number Two (who rarely sleeps and looks a bit like a pencil) and Rhonda (who looks young enough to pass as a teenager), and his ally Milligan (a master of disguise who, in the first book, suffers from amnesia). There's some really nice puzzles and plays on words in the book, and the books have a nice sense of peril to them. Found family! The four start off the book alone, but they don't end that way.
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WHAT IS IT: 3 300-400 ish page books. (There's also a prequel and sequel to the trilogy, but my requests will be focusing on Mysterious Benedict Society, Perilous Journey, and Prisoner's Dilemma
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: Four smart kids must work together to save the world!
The main four are all different types of smart, and they have realistic flaws, interpersonal skills, and risk assesment abilities for kids their age. It's also well established why the only choice for stopping Curtain is the kids. The main four protagonists are Reynie, an orphan who is good with puzzles and languages; Sticky, a runaway with an eidetic memory; Constance, the most stubborn of the four; and Kate, who ran away from an orphanage to join the circus. She's the most physically adept of the four, carrying a number of useful objects in a bright red bucket attached to her belt, and also has some deeply buried abandonment issues.
The main adult characters are also a lot of fun. You have Mr Benedict (which the titular society is named for), who recruits the main four; he's narcoleptic and occasionally falls asleep laughing at his own jokes. There's also his two adoptive daugters who he met during previous attempts to recruit a team, Number Two (who rarely sleeps and looks a bit like a pencil) and Rhonda (who looks young enough to pass as a teenager), and his ally Milligan (a master of disguise who, in the first book, suffers from amnesia).
There's some really nice puzzles and plays on words in the book, and the books have a nice sense of peril to them.
Found family! The four start off the book alone, but they don't end that way.