School Library Journal, October 1st, 2000
SNICKET, Lemony. The Austere Academy. illus. by Brett Helquist. 227p. (A Series of Unfortunate Events Series). CIP. HarperCollins. 2000. Tr $8.95. ISBN 0-06-440863-9; PLB $14.89. ISBN 0-06-028888-4. LC number unavailable.
Gr 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 t...
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