Grade 4-7-In this fifth entry in the saga of the three
Baudelaire children, the siblings are sent to a boarding school
where they are tormented because they are orphans. There is the
usual array of stupidevil adults including the ridiculous Vice
Principal Nero, who mimics everything that Klaus and Violet say and
employs baby Sunny as his secretary because she is too young to
attend class. Brown-nosing brats like Carmelita Spats make the
children''s lives even more miserable. The ending is
內容簡介:
As the three Baudelaire orphans warily approach their new home
Prufrock Preparatory School : they can′t help but notice the
enormous stone arch bearing the school′s motto Memento Mori or
"Remember you will die." This is not a cheerful greeting and
certainly marks an inauspicious beginning to a very bleak story
just as we have come to expect from Lemony Snickett′s Series of
Unfortunate Events, the deliciously morbid set of books that began
with The Bad Beginning and only got worse.
關於作者:
Lemony Snicket is the pen name of Daniel Handler, who was born
on February 28, 1970. As Lemony Snicket, he is the author of and
appears as a character in the children''s book series A Series of
Unfortunate Events. He has also written or contributed to other
works under the pen name of Lemony Snicket that are not related to
A Series of Unfortunate Events including Baby in the Manger, The
Lump of Coal, and The Composer is Dead. Under his real name,
Handler is the author of several books for adults including The
Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth, and Adverbs.