Lexile: not listed, but about 800-900
The Mysterious Benedict Society is a wonderful kid-centered adventure. An orphaned child sees an ad in the newspaper: Wanted: Extraordinary children. He shows up for the exam and is drawn into a world where children are the most important piece in a plan to overthrow an odious leader who is invading the country through subliminal messages in technology.
This book is exciting and scary and un-putdownable. Its themes are likely too advanced for very young readers, but slightly more mature readers will find the adventure fast-paced, the story well-told, and the vocabulary appropriately challenging. My son read this at age 6 1/2 and promptly turned back to the beginning and read it again.
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