Children who pass the test will be offered a full scholarship to the Boatwright Academy...
Miss Perumal sat across from the table from him, but Reynie, who had no trouble reading upside down, quickly scanned the advertisement's bold-printed words: "ARE YOU A GIFTED CHILD LOOKING FOR SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES?" How odd, he thought. The question was addressed directly to children, not to their parents. Reynie had never known his parents, who died when he was an infant, and it pleased him to read a notice that seemed to take this possibility into account. But still, how odd. How many children read the newspaper, after all? Reynie did, but he had always been considered an oddball. If not for Miss Perumal he might even have given it up by now, to avoid some of the teasing.
Pages 3-4 of the paperback edition of The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart