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The Mysterious Benedict Society
2007·497 pages
Four gifted orphans are recruited for a secret mission to infiltrate a mysterious institute and stop a mind-control threat.
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Four gifted orphans are recruited for a secret mission to infiltrate a mysterious institute and stop a mind-control threat.
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"Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?" Dozens of children respond to this peculiar ad in the newspaper and are then put through a series of mind-bending tests, which readers take along with them. Only four children--two boys and two girls--succeed. Their challenge: to go on a secret mission that only the most intelligent and inventive children could complete. To accomplish it they will have to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only r...
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No romantic or sexual content depicted
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Threats of harm, capture, and memory erasure; mild fantasy violence
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No profanity or strong language
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No LGBTQ+ characters or themes
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Themes of friendship, truth, and resistance to manipulation
Self-harm / suicide
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Orphan protagonists; threats to children and backstory of parental death
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