His younger brother's obsession with money and the discovery of long-lost cousins Flora and Fauna provide many embarrassing moments for twelve-year-old Peter.

Judy is excited about becoming a doctor, especially when Class 3T starts a new unit on the human body, but she learns more about being a patient when she catches tonsillitis from her little brother, Stink.

"The crystal keeper gazed around him at the shards of impure crystal, glittering furiously on the floor, and shivered with a terrible sense of foreboding." Twins, Victoria Stitch and Celestine, are denied their royal birth-right. Celestine accepts the decision with good grace, but Victoria Stitch is consumed with her obsession for power. The twins are like moonlight and sunshine - could it be possible to break free of the role you have been given,...

Scornful of his younger sister's fears, a young boy decides to explore a tunnel forcing her to go after him when he doesn't return.

After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Conde Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetoligist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time.

After returning home from their latest adventure, Mallory, Jared, and Simon find Mulgarath, an ogre and leader the goblins, has taken captive their mother along with Uncle Arthur's field guide.

Catastrophes and misfortune continue to plague the Baudelaire orphans after they're sent to live with fearful Aunt Josephine who offers little protection against Count Olaf's treachery.

Sofía siente que debido a que se parece mucho a sus hermanas mayores, nadie la nota, por lo que cuando llega el día de la fotografía escolar, se le ocurre una manera de sobresalir. Sofia feels that because she looks so much like her older sisters, nobody notices her--so when school picture day comes around she comes up with a way to stand out.