They were different people who wished for different things. All Benji wanted was to survive high school without failing his six AP classes. Josephine wanted to win every debate competition she stepped into, and quite frankly, everything else she ever did in life. Snyder just wanted people to never call him by his first name, or even better, never talk to him at all. They were different people with different wishes, but in the end they all got the same thing: weekly book discussions.