The day-to-day responsibilities of running the Institute are performed by the Executives, an overbearing group of former Messengers. Students who display the best ability to remember the lessons are promoted to Messengers, who are given highly desirable special privileges. While posing as new students at the Institute, the team learns that class lessons are geared toward memorizing the core of the secret subliminal messages. Benedict’s assistants, Number Two, Rhonda Kazembe, and Milligan, train the team. Benedict sends the team to infiltrate the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened (LIVE), where the hidden messages originate, to learn more about Mr. The children possess a unique ability to resist these messages, which have caused panic throughout the world. Benedict’s long-lost twin brother, to control people’s minds through subliminal messages. All of the children have lost their families and are exceptionally resourceful.Īs members of the Mysterious Benedict Society, the children learn of a sinister plan by Mr. Nicholas Benedict to embark on a dangerous mission to save the world. They take a series of strange tests and are chosen by Mr. I would recommend this book for ages 11+ because I feel that younger readers may not stick with the long book of nearly 500 pages.Four children, Reynie Muldoon, Sticky Washington, Kate Wetherall, and Constance Contraire, respond to a newspaper advertisement for gifted children seeking special opportunities. It’s shelved under junior fiction, but it feels more grown up than that. The book was easy to read, but had sublte undertones of more serious themes. I liked all of the characters, even though they are very different.

It kept me interested throughout the whole book and there were no dull bits – I couldn’t wait to get home from school and read it in bed.

What I thought: This book was full of twists and turns and had me engaged right from the start. They must infiltrate a prestigious and secluded school to find out why secret messages are being sent out.

About the book: Four children with unusual gifts and talents are called in to do a top-secret mission after completing an elaborate and difficult test, set by the mysterious Mr Benedict.

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