Format:
Ebook, Electronic Resources, Book
Title:
The mysterious Benedict Society [electronic resource] / Trent Lee Stewart ; [illustrated by Carson Ellis].
Author:
Stewart, Trenton Lee.
Call Number:
eBook
Web Site:
Web Link Available online.
Edition:
1st eBook ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York, NY : Little, Brown and Co., 2008.
Summary:
After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.
Subjects:
Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.
Schools -- Fiction.
Science fiction.
Adventure stories.
Schools -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Other Author:
Ellis, Carson, 1975-
Contents:
Pencils, erasers, and disqualification -- Buckets and spectacles -- Squares and arrows -- The trouble with children or, why they are necessary -- The sender and the messages -- The men in the maze -- Codes and histories -- The thing to come -- The naming of the crew -- Nomansan Island -- Traps and nonsense -- Beware the Gemini -- Lessons learned -- People and places to be avoided -- Logical conclusions and miscalculations -- Poison apples, poison worms -- A surprising suggestion -- Tests and invitations -- Everything as it should be -- Of families lost and found -- Tactical cactupi -- Caught in the act -- The waiting room -- Punishments and promotions -- Half a riddle -- The whisperer -- Open sesame -- Practice makes perfect -- Know thine enemy -- A chess lesson -- The mouse in the culvert -- Sacrifices, narrow escapes, and something like a plan -- Bad news and bad news -- Sticky's discovery -- The Great Kate Weather Machine -- Stands and falls -- The best medicine -- Escapes and returns -- For every exit, an entrance.
ISBN:
9780316032117 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
0316032115 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)