brothers and sisters

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brothers and sisters

From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

1967
Two suburban children run away from their Connecticut home and go to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where their ingenuity enables them to live in luxury.

Arthur and the Crunch cereal contest

1998
Arthur really wants to enter a song in the Crunch Cereal Jingle Contest, but when he cannot come up with a good idea, he enters a song his sister wrote instead.

Julius, the baby of the world

1990
Lilly is convinced that the arrival of her new baby brother is the worst thing that has happened in their house, until Cousin Garland comes to visit.

The slippery slope

2003
In the perilous Mortmain mountains, Klaus and Violet Baudelaire meet another well-read person, who helps them try to rescue Sunny from the villainous Count Olaf and his henchmen as they all near "the last safe place.".

Lucinda's secret

2003
Goblins, trolls, and the house boggart all try to get them, so the Grace children turn to Great Aunt Lucinda for help.

The bad beginning

1999
After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.

The hostile hospital

2001
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny disguise themselves as cheerful hospital volunteers after they are falsely accused of murder in order to find clues concerning their parents' deaths and are pursued by Count Olaf who is after their fortune.

The field guide

2003
The Grace children discover a field guide to fairies in their Great Aunt Lucinda's old Victorian house that sends them on a fantasic journey into a world of elves, dwarves, and trolls.

The vile village

2001
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are wisked off to the village of V.F.D. where a council of elders have enacted thousands of rules about the thousands of crows that inhabit the town and are protected by handyman Hector against Count Olaf, who is after the children's fortune.

Best friends for Frances

1969
When Albert and his buddies have a "no girls" baseball game, Frances and her sister organize a "Best Friends Outing -- No Boys.".

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