{"id":243,"date":"2008-10-18T20:10:36","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T00:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/18\/review-of-the-mysterious-benedict-society-by-trenton-lee-stewart\/"},"modified":"2008-10-18T22:14:41","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T02:14:41","slug":"review-of-the-mysterious-benedict-society-by-trenton-lee-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Mysterious Benedict Society, by Trenton Lee Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image244\" height=\"237\" alt=\"mysterious_benedict_society.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/mysterious_benedict_society.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Mysterious Benedict Society<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Trenton Lee Stewart<\/p>\n<p>read by Del Roy<\/p>\n<p>Listening Library (Random House), 2007.\u00a0 13 hours, 17 minutes.\u00a0 11 compact discs.<\/p>\n<p>I had not one but two parents tell me that their kids loved this book.\u00a0 When I saw it on audiobook, I thought I&#8217;d give it a try.\u00a0 Audiobooks are working well for me for light-hearted fiction that I can enjoy in small doses.<\/p>\n<p>Renny Muldoon is a brilliant orphan who knows he is completely different from other children.\u00a0 When he sees an ad offering a test for gifted children looking for special opportunities, he goes to the test and begins\u00a0the adventure of a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>Renny ends up on a team with other exceptional children\u00a0who are\u00a0offered a dangerous mission with the fate of the world at stake.\u00a0 The mysterious Mr. Benedict explains why only children can save the world now.<\/p>\n<p>The adventure yarn that follows is a lot of fun.\u00a0 Sure, there are several coincidences and several places where believability is strained.\u00a0 However, it&#8217;s definitely an entertaining and exciting story.<\/p>\n<p>Del Roy&#8217;s voice sounds like a kindly grandfather telling you a story, and I quickly thought of his voice as coming from Mr. Benedict himself.<\/p>\n<p>This book is excellent for upper elementary age children who will enjoy some good, clean, and clever\u00a0fun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0307284395\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/mysterious_benedict_society.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/mysterious_benedict_society.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart read by Del Roy Listening Library (Random House), 2007.\u00a0 13 hours, 17 minutes.\u00a0 11 compact discs. I had not one but two parents tell me that their kids loved this book.\u00a0 When I saw it on audiobook, I thought I&#8217;d give it a try.\u00a0 Audiobooks are working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,10,21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-childrens-fiction-review","category-contemporary","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}