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The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 5) [UNABRIDGED] (Audio CD)
by Lemony Snicket
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Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: HarperChildren's Audio; Unabridged edition
Pub. in: July, 2003
ISBN: 0060566191
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Measurements: 6.4 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BB00116
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0060566197
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The sereis of Unfortunate Events
The Austere Academy
Lemony Snicket wrote this book, grabbing, and attracting readers with her words, to show much pity for certain characters throughout the story. This book ventures through many categories beyond mystery.
It all starts when an evil villain, Count Olaf, murders the mother and father of a rich family called the Buadelains.
The children Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are taken to Prufreck Prepatory school. At the school they see a building with writing on it, an evil omen, "Memento Mori" (meaning, Remember you will die).
The children know they are not safe from Count Olaf, but the ever mimicking Vice President Nero of school says he has hi-tech computer programs that will keep Count Olaf away.
After the Baudelaine children are settled in their orphan's shack that has dripping fungi on the ceiling and snapping crabs on the floor, they must endure boredom of the metric system, comprehensive exams, strict ways of adults, and violin recitals, plus the new gym teacher, Coach Genghis, who makes them do S.O.R.E.
The only good thing the Baudelaines have now are the 2 triplet friends called the Quagmires.
Since losing their other triplet, they know the pain the Baudelains have, so they aid them through their troubles.
The Quagmires and Buadelains begin to believe the coach is really Count Alof in disguise. They have all the facts to prove it until the story twists, and ends with the Buadelins losing another possession in their life.
This children in this book display good sportsmanship, and kindness. Through troubles the Quagmires showed comfort and support for the Baudelaines, and the Baudelains do the same for the Quagmires. There was allot of teamwork between & in each family.
I think Lemony Snicket wanted to grab our attention, and let us know there are less fortunate people who do lose family. If we should cross paths with someone likewise we should give them sympathy.
I would recommend this book to anybody who likes mystery and adventure, and doesn't mind being scared a little bit.
(Quoting from Johnny, USA)
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Lemony Snicket is the author of all 170 chapters in A Series of Unfortunate Events. Despite everything, he is still at large.
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From Publisher
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.
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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Amazon.com (MSL quote), USA
<2008-02-15 00:00>
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. Of course, this is what we have come to expect from Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events, the deliciously morbid set of books that began with The Bad Beginning and only got worse.
In The Austere Academy, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are at first optimistic - attending school is a welcome change for the book-loving trio, and the academy is allegedly safe from the dreaded Count Olaf, who is after their fortune. Hope dissipates quickly, however, when they meet Vice Principal Nero, a self-professed genius violinist who sneeringly imitates their every word. More dreadful still, he houses them in the tin Orphans Shack, crawling with toe-biting crabs and dripping with a mysterious tan fungus. A beam of light shines through the despair when the Baudelaires meet the Quagmires, two of three orphaned triplets who are no strangers to disaster and sympathize with their predicament. When Count Olaf appears on the scene disguised as Coach Genghis (covering his monobrow with a turban and his ankle tattoo with expensive running shoes), the Quagmires resolve to come to the aid of their new friends. Sadly, this proves to be a hideous mistake.
Snicket disarms us again with his playful juxtapositions-only he can compare bombs with strawberry shortcake (both are as dangerous to make as assumptions), muse on how babies adjust developmentally to the idea of curtains, or ponder why the Baudelaire orphans would not want to be stalks of celery despite their incessant bad luck as humans. We can't get enough of this splendid series of misadventures, and can only wager that swarms of young readers will be right next to us in line for the next installment. (Ages 9 and older) -Karin Snelson |
School Library Journal (MSL quote), USA
<2008-02-15 00:00>
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 stupid/evil 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 a cliff-hanger as the evil Count Olaf, disguised as Coach Genghis, the new gym teacher, drives off with the orphans' only friends. In these days of Harry Potter, this book is a pesky nuisance, with little plot to drive it, situations that fall short of being interesting or off-the-wall, and cardboard characters. The author strains to be eccentric and his constant interruptions in the narrative to define a word or phrase are jarring at best.
Ann Cook, Winter Park Public Library, FL Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. |
AudioFile (MSL quote), USA
<2008-02-15 00:00>
Author Lemony Snicket takes great delight in the audio production of his work. The woes of the Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. A strong sense of family despite adversity. Delight in vocabulary. All these are touchstones of Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events titles. In this fifth installment, the three Baudelaires attend Prufrock Preparatory School, where they need their collective wits to survive the forces of evil. It's a pleasure to hear an author read his own creation. One gets to hear the story just as the creator would like it heard. Each inflection, babble of baby Sunny, elongated word, or character introduction is Snicket's own, with all the import he would like it to have. This is a listening delight. A.R. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine -This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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Booklist (MSL quote), USA
<2008-02-15 00:00>
Gr. 4-6. The Beaudelaire orphans enroll as students at Prufrock Academy in the fifth Series of Unfortunate Events book. The Academy, run by nasty, mimicking Vice Principal Nero, is shaped like a large tombstone, and the perpetually unlucky Violet, Klaus, and Sunny must stay in a tin shack with biting crabs, dripping tan fungus, and green walls decorated with tiny green hearts. Series followers will be keeping their eye out for evil Count Olaf in one of his disguises, and the author doesn't disappoint. Snicket once again uses comical word definitions in the text ("the phrase 'impressionable age' here means 'ten and eight years old, respectively'), and just when things seem a little too predictable, Count Olaf makes off with the Beaudelaire's new friends, the Quagmire orphans, so setting things up for book six. Kids not familiar with the previous books will also enjoy this. REVWR Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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