The Mysterious Benedict Society

Recently I read a book called The Mysterious Benedict Society, and it was AMAZING. The story takes place in a city called Stonetown, where a mysterious ad appears in the newspaper saying, "Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?" When eleven-year-old orphan Reynard Maldoon finds this ad, he decides to take a series of tests to join the Mysterious Benedict Society. After the long-awaited moment of peace when the tests are finally over, Reynard finds himself with two other test-takers: Sticky Washington and Kate Wetherall. Although they have completely different pasts, they all share one thing in common: before the second test, all three of them met a girl named Rhonda Kazembe whose pencil fell into a drain. Rhonda then offered all three of them test cheats. After they discovered that had happened to all three of them, a man introducing himself as Milligan meets them, he suddenly brings them into a mysterious maze of rooms. After all three of them complete the maze, they meet a man named Nicholas Benedict, who tells them that them that they are in greater danger than ever expected. The excitement goes on from there.