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The Austere Academy
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book 5

The Austere Academy (2000) (edit title/settings)

by Lemony Snicket (Author) (edit contributors)

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Dear Reader,
If you are looking for a story about cheerful youngsters spending a jolly time at boarding school, look elsewhere. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent and resourceful children, and you might expect that they would do very well at school. Don't. For the... read more

Summary edit see section history

As their outrageous misfortune continues, the Baudelaire orphans are shipped off to a miserable boarding school, where they befriend the two Quagmire triplets and that they have been followed by the dreaded Count Olaf.

Characters edit see section history

  • Violet Baudelaire: Oldest Baudelaire-14 years old, this girl is a definite inventor! She can invent everything... out of everything!!!! And that really comes in handy! Ties her hair up in a ribbon when thinking of an invention
  • Klaus Baudelaire: Middle child-12 years old, this boy is a very smart one. He reads billions of books and remembers them all! He can help out anytime the Baudelaires need information!
  • Sunny Baudelaire: The youngest Baudelaire, a little girl with four very sharp teeth that could do almost anything! She is strong (for a baby), smart, and intelligent!
  • Mr. Poe: Banker, in charge of Baudelaire affairs, not so reliable he never thinks that the Baudelaires are in trouble. He is rather thick and doesn't listen to the Baudelaires.He always coughs into a white handkerchief.
  • Carmelita Spats: Mean plain mean. She is conceited and a bully. Constantly calls the Baudelaires, "cakesniffers."
  • Vice Principal Nero: Horrible violinist mean Priod nothing else. He comes up with awful punishments for silly rules.
  • Count Olaf: Greedy, evil man. He wants the Baudelaire fortune and will follow them anywhere. He uses trickery and disguises to try and get their fortune.
  • Duncan Quagmire: willing to risk his life. He is part of the set of Quagmire triplets.He helped the Baudelairs and was their friend. He is interested in journalism.
  • Isadora Quagmire: The second of the Quagmire triplets. She became friends with the Baudelairs and helped them. She is interested in poetry, especially couplets.
  • Quigley Quagmire: The third of the triplets. Perished in a fire
  • Mr. Remora: Says really boring stories and the class have to remember every detail of them and always eats bananas
  • Mrs. Bass: A school teacher obsessed with the metric system.
  • Coach Gengis: Coach Genghis is the new gym teacher, who is brutal to Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. He introduces them to S.O.R.E., a running test.
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  • “Get out of my way, you cakesniffers!"”
    Carmelita Spats
  • “Shyness is a very curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people are any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.”
    Lemony Snicket
  • “"If I'm not mistaken," said Klaus, who was rarely mistaken, "'Memento Mori' means 'Remember you will die.'"”
    Klaus Baudelaire
  • “Perhaps after a few semesters at Prufrock Prep, you'll learn the difference between a parent and a banker.”
    Vice Principal Nero
  • “As I'm sure you know, a good night's sleep helps you perform well in school, and so if you are a student you should always geta good night's sleep unless you have come to the good part in your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk.'”
    Lemony Snicket
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  • In the case of this sonata, Nero had apparently been inspired by somebody beating up a cat,
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  • Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.
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  • “there is no worse sound in the world than somebody who cannot play the violin who insists on doing so anyway.”
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  • And, of course, mountains serve as homes to mountain goats and mountain lions, who enjoy attacking helpless picnickers and eating sandwiches or children.
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  • “‘Memento Mori’ means ‘Remember you will die.’”
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  • It is always cruel to laugh at people, of course, although sometimes if they are wearing an ugly hat it is hard to control yourself.
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  • Mr. Poe meant well, but a jar of mustard probably also means well and would do a better job of keeping the Baudelaires out of danger.
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  • The expression “Making a mountain out of a molehill” simply means making a big deal out of something that is actually a small deal,
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  • “Not only am I intelligent,” Genghis agreed, “but I’m also very smart.
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First Sentence edit see section history

If you were going to give a gold medal to the least delightful person on Earth, you would have to give that medal to a person named Carmelita Spats, and if you didn't give it to her, Carmelita Spats was the sort of person who would snatch it from your hands anyway.

Table of Contents edit see section history

This book has thirteen untitled chapters.

Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

  • couplets: are two lined rhyming poems that the twins use as to tell Sunny, Klaus, and Violet clues
  • V.F.D.: secret organization

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 5 of 13 in A Series of Unfortunate Events. (standard series)

Preceded by The Miserable Mill, and followed by The Ersatz Elevator.

This is book 31 of 216 in Whitcoulls Kids' Top 50 (2011). (authoritative list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Lemony Snicket (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Brett Helquist (Illustrator)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Country: United States
Publication Date: August 2000
ISBN: 0439402034
Page Count: 221

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: PZ7.S6795 Au 2000
  • Dewey: 813.54

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More Books Like This edit see section history

   
  • The Bad Beginning
  • The Reptile Room
  • The Penultimate Peril
  • The End
  • The Grim Grotto
  • The Ersatz Elevator
  • The Vile Village
  • The Wide Window
  • The Miserable Mill
  • The Carnivorous Carnival
  • The Slippery Slope
  • The Hostile Hospital
  • The Beatrice Letters

Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history

   
  • The Bad Beginning
  • The Reptile Room
  • The Wide Window
  • The Miserable Mill

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