{"id":196,"date":"2008-08-18T20:16:09","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T00:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books\/?p=196"},"modified":"2008-08-18T20:16:09","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T00:16:09","slug":"the-mysterious-benedict-society-and-the-perilous-journey-by-trenton-lee-stewartlittle-brown-and-company-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/the-mysterious-benedict-society-and-the-perilous-journey-by-trenton-lee-stewartlittle-brown-and-company-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee StewartLittle, Brown and Company, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was the sort of book I am not sure if I would have liked as a kid (I can&#8217;t remember if I liked adventure-ish books or found them stressful or else just never really read them, other than <i>A Wrinkle in Time<\/i>), but that I totally enjoy now. It&#8217;s full of adventure and riddles and smart characters, funny moments and scary moments and moments of bravery: in short, a book to stay up late reading. It&#8217;s the sequel to <i>The Mysterious Benedict Society<\/i>, in which four very smart children banded together against a very smart villain; in this one, the friends reunite for a global scavenger hunt that turns out to be more serious than they&#8217;d expected. I love Reynie and Constance, with their clear assessments of people, and Kate&#8217;s pluckiness, and Sticky&#8217;s determination: of course, the scavenger hunt teaches the children lessons about themselves and the world, but it&#8217;s all such fun, not too heavy-handed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the sort of book I am not sure if I would have liked as a kid (I can&#8217;t remember if I liked adventure-ish books or found them stressful or else just never really read them, other than A Wrinkle in Time), but that I totally enjoy now. It&#8217;s full of adventure and riddles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-young-adultchildrens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}