It's been a few years since I read The Mysterious Benedict Society so I don't remember if the earlier book was quite as introspective about our young heroes' feelings of exclusion from the world, but The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey does live up to its title and deliver more action.

(Disclosure: the author is my boss' brother-in-law AND I'm going to see him at a wedding next week. So, no letter grade. I liked it, though.)