As the three Baudelaire orphans warily approach their new home Prufrock Preparatory School : they canβ²t help but notice the enormous stone arch bearing the schoolβ²s motto Memento Mori or "Remember you will die." This is not a cheerful greeting and certainly marks an inauspicious beginning to a very
The Austere Academy
β Scribed by Lemony Snicket
- Publisher
- HarperCollinsPublishers
- Year
- 2007;2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 226 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
As the three Baudelaire orphans warily approach their new home Prufrock Preparatory School : they canβ²t help but notice the enormous stone arch bearing the schoolβ²s 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 Snickettβ²s Series of Unfortunate Events, the deliciously morbid set of books that began with The Bad Beginning and only got worse.
Ages 10+
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