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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 Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, the deliciously morbid set of books that began with The Bad Beginning and only got worse.

Author: Lemony Snicket
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 08/08/2000
Series: A Unfortunate Events #5
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 6.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780064408639
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.7
Point Value: 6
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 41280 / Austere Academy


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 10/01/2000 pg. 171
New York Times 10/15/2000 pg. 30
Booklist 10/15/2000 pg. 439
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2000 pg. 79 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2001 pg. 79 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw

About the Author
Snicket, Lemony: -

Lemony Snicket had an unusual education which may or may not explain his ability to evade capture. He is the author of the 13 volumes in A Series of Unfortunate Events, several picture books including The Dark, and the books collectively titled All The Wrong Questions.

Kupperman, Michael: - Michael Kupperman has done many illustrations for such publications as Fortune, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. He frequently writes scripts for DC Comics. This is his first book.Helquist, Brett: -

Brett Helquist's celebrated art has graced books from the charming Bedtime for Bear, which he also wrote, to the New York Times-bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket to the glorious picture book adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.