A Series of Unfortunate Events #5: The Austere Academy

Incredulously” is a word which here means “not being able to believe it

Count Olaf has assistants?” Isadora asked. “That’s not fair. He’s bad enough without people helping him.”

Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences, a phrase which here means “having lost family members in terrible fires and lived in the Orphans Shack.”

Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences

But the Baudelaires had learned long ago that temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs,

For Beatrice—
You will always be in my heart,
in my mind,
and in your grave.

Yes,” Klaus said, shaking his head. “He told us that the advanced computer system would keep Olaf away. So much for computers.”

“Sappho!” Sunny shrieked, which meant something like “I’d be very pleased to hear a poem of yours!”

have seen what the academy looked like, but perhaps it was best to delay looking at it for as long as possible. A person who