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The Baudelaire orphans are sent to a miserable boarding school
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What it is about
After a long journey, the Baudelaires are enrolled at Prufrock Preparatory School. The school is awful, and the vice principal is cruel. They meet new friends, the Quagmire triplets, while Count Olaf is near.
Who will enjoy it
Readers of the series.
What you will get
The fifth book of A Series of Unfortunate Events.
The Austere Academy Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Children’s Books · Orphans · Boarding school · Gloomy humor
Length
221 pages · ≈ 6 h
More about this book
Characters
Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire and the Quagmires.
Setting
Prufrock Preparatory School.
What makes it different
A school story with a dark comic sense.
Feel
Gloomy and funny.
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