Trenton Lee Stewart's "The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey" - A Thrilling Adventure Awaits!

Laura N: Our 8 yo son loves this series. He finished all the Harry Potter books and we were looking for something of similar length and style for him to get into. He loves them! The language is a bit more advanced than Harry Potter, but it feels like the appropriate next step for him and he's learning lots of new words. Very mysterious, indeed!

United States on May 07, 2023

KZ: The book has its moments but reads very flat bulk of the time.

Canada on Oct 04, 2022

Ann Ball: My granddaughter loves the series

Canada on Sep 21, 2022

Lucy Grainger: I like how the storie contuniues and you do not know what is going to happen next. If you liked the mysterious benedict society you will love this sequel. I am surprizedd it has not got any awards

Australia on Aug 14, 2021

Amazon Customer: The book is very good. At first, I had got a book with chapters in it from another book in the series, but the seller was very helpful and ensured that I got the correct book

India on Jan 23, 2021

Meghana B: My kids love this book series! My 15 year old and 10 year old have read this series a multiple times. Just recently my Son(15) in Junior High has read the whole series again, while my daughter had picked it up. He was completely riveted to the books until he finished it. Then it was at lunch, at dinner and everywhere. We also have the kindle version, so even if we traveled we had it along!

Clever twists and adventure that the kids will love!

The school Library Journal says,"Fresh and Frightfully funny."

Starting from the first one, the sequels are equally gripping!

India on Aug 23, 2016

wolf-uwe ostermann: I am an avid reader of good childrens books - one reason among many others being that I want to check before hand what I give my children to read. If the book has passed according to my criteria, we then read it to each other in turns. I thought the first book was about OK. It had some original ideas concerning tests and being tested, and the charcters of Kate, Charlotte, Reynie and Sticky were well constructed. What I didn't like was the hint - in the first book it still was a mere hint - of scaring the kids out of their wits, mostly of physical nature, such as malicious executives or the waiting room contraption. On the other hand I gave the author credit for highlighting the possiblities of being brainwashed through TV - something I haven't often read in books for kids - and that he kept the supsense going. Towards the end of the book, though, I had a bad feeling ... to keep the bad guy alive always results in writing yet another book with more or less the same theme, and that doesn't speak for the creativity of the author ... it's the easy way out.
Sure enough, the second book (The Perilious Journey) turned out to be a total disaster. What hit me most was that it always is...

United States on Jul 18, 2010

George Buttner: The Mysterious Benedict Society, a group of four children created to thwart the plans of the evil genius Ledroptha Curtain, is fresh off their great victory. The "brainswept" are slowly having their memories returned and everything seems like it should be getting back to normal. It should be the perfect happy ending, yet happy endings are rarely so simple...

All is not well for the Mysterious Benedict Society. Reynie, still shaken by the previous adventures, finds himself having nightmares of being surrounded by snakes. A conversation with Mr. Benedict did little to ease his growing fears that wickedness is something to be generally expected of people. Kate has been living largely on her own wits for the past six months (Milligan largely off doing secret agent work) and Sticky has had trouble convincing his parents that he should be allowed to go to college. As for three-year-old Constance, she continues to struggle with being a young child genius, while the government refuses to even properly acknowledge her existence so she can be adopted by Mr. Benedict.

The group comes together again with the promise of experiencing a great surprise created by Mr. Benedict, but...

United States on Apr 26, 2008