Three Orphan Children: Claus, Violet, And Sunny Baudelaire

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Summary: This story is about three orphan children: Claus, Violet, and Sunny Baudelaire. These three siblings became orphans when their mother and father passed away in a fire. This fire not only destroyed the people they loved the most, but it destroyed their home and all of their belongings along with it. As the children find a temporary home with a family friend, they are soon passed off to a distant family member, Count Olaf. What they don’t know yet is that Count Olaf is after the fortune that the siblings parents have left behind for them. In the effort to regain a normal lifestyle, the siblings find it near impossible as Count Olaf treats them more like slaves than children. Count Olaf concocts a plan to marry Violet in order to have

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