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The Bad Beginning by Daniel Handler - Book Review

The Bad Beginning is the first book in the thirteen-book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Daniel Handler, or as he likes to call himself: Lemony Snicket. This makes for a very interesting ele...

The BFG by Roald Dahl - Book Review

The Big Friendly Giant AKA BFG written by Roald Dahl is a children’s favorite, selling around a million copies each year globally. Full of colorful adventures, this delightful story incorporates many...

The Ersatz Elevator by Daniel Handler - Book Review

The series begins to expand and the books start to become larger with the sixth book of the series. The Baudelaire orphans are once again sucked into the vortex of finding a guardian and Mr. Poe actu...

The Grim Grotto by Daniel Handler - Book Review

The Grim Grotto brings the orphans into a whole new locale: the deepest parts of the sea, where they meet with new characters, who are VFD members as well. These people help them in their quest to es...

The Miserable Mill by Daniel Handler - Book Review

The fourth book in the series takes the orphans to a new bizarre guardian after the first three have failed to protect them from Count Olaf. Mr. Poe now takes them to a mill, where a manager is a man...

The Penultimate Peril by Daniel Handler - Book Review

The Penultimate Peril is probably the one that Handler spent most of his time writing for how detailed, action-packed, and anticipation-building it is. Readers should not expect every detail to fall i...

The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate - Book Review

It’s simple to read with illustrations and not many words on each of its pages, but don’t let that fool anyone to the powerful and empathetic read for kids and adults of The One and Only Ivan. The st...

The Hostile Hospital by Daniel Handler - Book Review

In The Hostile Hospital, we get to see our first glimpse of the Baudelaires as escapees. They have decided to take matters into their own hands, search for clues leading to the VFD headquarters, and u...

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