Title: Mr. Benedict's Perplexing Puzzles, Elusive Enigmas, and Curious Conundrums
Author: Trenton Lee Stewart
Copyright: 2012
ISBN: 978-0316181938
Now that our Spy program has been completed I would be honored to tell you where some of the activities came from! As our participants know, each day had a different book that represented what we were doing. On Monday we heard from Paul Janezcko and his book "Top Secret", on Tuesday it was "Harriet the Spy", Wednesday was "The Mysterious Benedict Society", Thursday "Spy School", and Friday "The Red Blazer Girls."
It is true that children who had read these books had a bit of an advantage when it came to solving each day's activities though I like to believe I adapted each scenario to make it sufficiently difficult.
While earlier this week I reviewed The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict, I would also like to review a second new book in the series that was released this winter, "Mr. Benedict's Perplexing Puzzles, Elusive Enigmas, and Curious Conundrums." With a title like that you know the book is going to be good.
It is filled with challenging puzzles, so challenging in fact that even using the hints provided at the end of the book I could still only solve about 1/2 of the puzzles in the book. Not too many libraries own copies of this book since it would encourage children to write in the book. However, if you have a child who loves the Mysterious Benedict Society or Puzzles and brain teasers I highly recommend purchasing this book for him. It will provide hours (and probably even weeks and months) of excitement.
Try this puzzle yourself and see if you can solve it!
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