Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events, The Bad Beginning

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The first book of A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Bad Beginning is written by Lemony Snicket. The book starts out when the Baudelaire children are on Briny Beach where the receive terrible news about their parents death. They had to live with the Mr. Poe and his family, people they knew, until Mr. Poe found the relative they were supposed to live with when both of their parents died. The relative they stayed with had the name of Count Olaf. While living at Count Olaf’s house the children met Justice Strauss a neighbor of their new guardian. In her house there was a gigantic library that the kids enjoyed very much. While living with Count Olaf they discovered he wanted their fortune that couldn’t be used until the oldest child was of age.

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