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A series of unfortunate events

Author:
Snicket, Lemony
 
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Star rating for The bad beginning
Series Volume:
1.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.
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Star rating for The reptile room
Series Volume:
2.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time.
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Star rating for The wide window
Series Volume:
3.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
Catastrophes and misfortune continue to plague the Baudelaire orphans after they're sent to live with fearful Aunt Josephine who offers little protection against Count Olaf's treachery.
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Star rating for The miserable mill
Series Volume:
4.
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Description:
Accidents, evil plots, and general misfortune abound when, in their continuing search for a home, the Baudelaire orphans are sent to live and work in a sinister lumber mill.
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Star rating for The austere academy
Series Volume:
5.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
As their outrageous misfortune continues, the Baudelaire orphans are shipped off to a miserable boarding school, where they befriend the two Quagmire triplets and find that they have been followed by the dreaded Count Olaf.
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Star rating for The ersatz elevator
Series Volume:
6.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
The woeful saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as evil Count Olaf discovers their whereabouts at Esmé Squalor's seventy-one bedroom penthouse and concocts a new plan for stealing their family fortune.
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Star rating for The vile village
Series Volume:
7.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
Under a new government program based on the saying "It takes a village to raise a child," the Baudelaire orphans are adopted by an entire town, with disastrous results.
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Star rating for The hostile hospital
Series Volume:
8.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
On the run after being falsely accused of murder, the three Baudelaire orphans find themselves in the Heimlich Hospital, with the evil Count Olaf in close pursuit.
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Star rating for The carnivorous carnival
Series Volume:
9.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
On the run as suspected murderers, the unlucky Baudelaire orphans find themselves trapped in the Caligari Carnival, where they must masquerade as freaks in order to hide from the evil Count Olaf.
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Star rating for The slippery slope
Series Volume:
10.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
In the perilous Mortmain Mountains, Klaus and Violet Baudelaire meet another well-read person, who helps them try to rescue Sunny from the villainous Count Olaf and his henchmen as they all near "the last safe place."
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Star rating for The grim grotto
Series Volume:
11.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
Still pursued by the evil Count Olaf, the Baudelaire orphans attempt to reach a very important VFD meeting, but first they must travel in a rattletrap submarine to the Gorgonian Grotto, a dangerous underwater cave, in search of the sugar bowl.
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Star rating for The penultimate peril
Series Volume:
12.
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
Description:
The Baudelaire orphans disguise themselves as employees of the Hotel Denoument and find themselves pursued by the evil Count Olaf and by others.

13. The end

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Star rating for The end
Series Volume:
13.
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
Description:
Lost at sea, the Baudelaire orphans, along with the evil Count Olaf, wash up on the shore of an island populated by an oddly placid group of inhabitants, and they try to decide whether or not they are truly safe.

14.  The Beatrice letters

 
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