Author Study for This Term..
Lemony Snicket
These are the 3 books that we will focus upon this year...
the bad beginningThe Bad Beginning is the first novel of the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire learn of their parents' death while sitting on a beach. Mr. Poe, a banker, comes to give them the news of their parents' demise and take charge of them. He gives them into the hands of their next nearest relative, Count Olaf.
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The reptile roomHaving just escaped from the greedy and evil Count Olaf in the first book, the Baudelaire children are now taken to live with another relative, Dr. Montgomery. While the children find Dr. Montgomery to be a kind herpetologist, Count Olaf's final threat in the previous book continues to throw a shadow over their future.
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the wide windowThe book begins with Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire sitting at Damocles Dock in the town of Lake Lachrymose, which lies next to the lake with the same name. Mr. Poe, the manager of their estate, arranges a taxi to drive the Baudelaires to the top of a high hill where their new home awaits. As the taxi pulls up to the hilltop, the orphans find themselves at a house at the edge of a cliff supported by wooden beams.
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