The Austere Academy
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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 Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, the deliciously morbid set of books that began with The Bad Beginning and only got worse.
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The Creatives Behind the Book
Lemony Snicket is the author of the thirteen volumes in A Series of Unfortunate Events; several picture books, including The Dark; and the books collectively titled All the Wrong Questions.
Brett Helquist’s celebrated art has graced books from the charming Bedtime for Bear, which he also wrote, to the New York Times-bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket to the glorious picture book adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.
Michael Kupperman has done many illustrations for such publications as Fortune, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. He frequently writes scripts for DC Comics. This is his first book.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780064408639
- Publication Date
- August 8, 2000
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Original Publication Date
- August 8, 2000
- Page Count
- 221
- Words Per Page
- 152
- Audience
- Middle Grade
- Reading Age
- 8 - 12 years
- Lexile® Level
- 1140L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~Z
- Est. ATOS® Book Level
- ~8.2
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