Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorised Autobiography: Part 5

By LEMONY SNICKET

Aside from the weather, however, the day was as normal as a group of seals with wings riding around on unicycles, assuming that you lived someplace where that was very normal, until a mysterious -- a word which here means "arcane" -- stranger came through the revolving door.

The stranger was a woman, at least as tall as a small chair and probably as old as someone who attended nursery school many years ago. She was entirely dressed in articles of clothing, and had nothing on her feet except a pair of socks and two shoes.

She cast a desperate glance around the lobby of the building, which was as empty as a beehive when all of the bees have been driven out of it, and then thrust a packet of papers into my hands and began to speak in a voice that reminded me distinctly of her own.

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: $24.95

Age group: 10-15 yrs

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