The Octagon Valley Society

By Melissa de la Cruz

Part of the Octagon Valley Society series

A high-tech institute's weekend tests push misfit students to embrace their quirks or face bizarre challenges.

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320 pages· 59,182 words· Est. 8 hour read

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Bookroo's summary

Edwin Edgefield, with his photographic memory and genius math skills, joins a group of misfit students at a secluded high-tech institute. As they face escape-room challenges, zero-gravity chambers, and piranha-filled rivers, Edwin wonders if they're in the right place. With amateur rapper Li’l Kimmy, violin prodigy Julie, and others, they must embrace their quirks to survive. Will they rise to the occasion and discover the extraordinary within themselves? The stakes are high, and the surprises even higher, as they navigate the eccentric world of Onasander Octagon's institute.

From the publisher

This new series from #1 New York Times best-selling author Melissa de la Cruz is The Mysterious Benedict Society for reluctant readers, chockful of humor, adventure and mischief, and set at an exclusive, secluded, high-tech institute everyone wants to get into. You only get in if you’re EXTRAordinary…. After passing an intense exam, Edwin Edgefield becomes one of the lucky few to attend an exclusive weekend at the mysterious high-tech institute of the uber-famous-ultrabazillionaire-genius-recluse Onasander Octagon. Edwin hopes he’ll meet other kids like him–kids who will accept him even though he’s got a photographic memory, genius-level math skills, and some very specific personality quirks. But when he meets the other misfits (um, students), he starts to wonder if they’re all in the right place. There’s amateur rapper Li’l Kimmy, violin prodigy Julie, video game-obsessed Anton, teacher’s pet Ting-Ting, mean girl Maureen, and surfer dude Dilip. And we’re not even going to talk about Harold. Are you sitting down? Because this is when things get really weird. Octagon’s weekend events include an escape-room challenge, a zero-gravity chamber, a river full of piranhas, and . . . some ninjas? Surviving Octagon Valley may require these outcasts to embrace their inner weird and become greater together than they ever could separately. Those who rise to the wacky occasion will be treated to the biggest, most spectacular surprise of their lives–a chance to be truly EXTRAordinary!

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