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| Title: The Vile
Village |
| Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events #7 |
| Author: Lemony Snicket |
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| Reviewer: Alaina W. '09 This book may be the saddest book in the series. Violet, Klaus and Sunny are
faced with the difficult challenge of doing everyone's chores in the town of VFD without
breaking all the VFD rules. And they are still trying to find the Quagmire triplets.
They get to live with Hector the handyman who is always breaking the rules behind the
console of elders. But they... Can't tell you so read the book to see what Olaf is up to
now.
Spring 2002 |
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| Reviewer:
Abigail K.
'09 The
Vile Village is about three orphans whose names are Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. They are
under the care of a banker, Mr. Poe, who always has a terrible cough.
The orphans' parents have died, as told in the first book
in the series, The Bad Beginning. Mr. Poe has been put in charge of
their extraordinarily large fortune. Count Olaf, their first guardian after
their parents' death, is still trying to get his hands on the Baudelaires' fortune.
In this book, Mr. Poe decides that the Baudelaires
should be taken care of by a village. He gets this strange idea from a
brochure; the people who wrote the brochure have the idea that "it takes
a village to raise a child."
The Baudelaires don't encounter the type of village they would have
liked. The village is full of crows, they are forced to do chores, and they
have to clean up after the Elders who make up millions of rules. Someone spots
a man with an eye, the sign of Count Olaf, on his ankle and one eyebrow. The
Baudelaires are overjoyed because that means that the police have caught Count Olaf.
Once they see this man they know that everyone is
mistaken. The man is not Count Olaf. He is Jaques
Snicket. A detective named Dupin comes to investigate "Olaf." When
the Baudelaires see Dupin they know that once again everyone is mistaken.
Dupin is the real Olaf.
When Jaques Snicket is murdered in his prison
cell, Olaf accuses the Baudelaires of murdering him. The Baudelaires
don't know what to do.
I really like this book. It is supposed
to be sad, but the way the author writes, it makes it seem less
sad. Sunny is the most interesting character. She bites
everything, including hard things like bronze blocks. She talks to her brother
and sister using her own language. She crawls from place to place.
I recommend it to everyone who likes adventure books.
Winter 2002 |
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| Reviewer: Andrew L.
’08 The Vile Village, by Lemony
Snicket, is the seventh entertaining book in "A Series of Unfortunate
Events." In this book, the three Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Sunny, and Klause, are
forced to live in yet another place. This time it is in V.F.D, or the "Village of
Fowl Devotees." The village is the place where the V.F.D. crows live. There are over
14,000 rules, and if you don’t obey them, you will be burned at the stake. The
Baudelaires live with Hector, the handyman. Once again, Count Olaf, the orphans’
guardian is up to no good. He has the Quagmire triplets hidden somewhere. Will the
Baudelaires find the Quagmires and escape the evil Count Olaf? If you have loved reading
the other books in this series as much as I have, read this book to find out what happens
this time!
Spring 2001 |
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