A Series of Unfortunate Events #7: The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket & Brett Helquist

Author:Lemony Snicket & Brett Helquist [Snicket, Lemony & Helquist, Brett]
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Orphans, General, Juvenile Fiction, Children's Books, Children: Grades 4-6, Ages 9-12 Fiction, Family, City and town life, Action & Adventure - General, Comics & Graphic Novels, Humorous stories, Orphans & Foster Homes, Siblings, Brothers and sisters, Family - Orphans & Foster Homes, working, Family - Siblings, Baudelaire; Sunny (Fictitious character), Baudelaire; Klaus (Fictitious character), Baudelaire; Violet (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 9780064408653
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2001-04-11T17:45:49.710000+00:00

The next morning began with a colorful and lengthy sunrise, which Sunny saw from her hiding place at the bottom of Nevermore Tree. It continued with the sounds of awakening crows, which Klaus heard from the library in the barn, and followed with the sight of the birds making their familiar circle in the sky, which Violet saw just as she was leaving the inventing studio. By the time Klaus joined his sister outside the barn, and Sunny crawled across the flat landscape to reach them, the birds had stopped circling and were flying together uptown, and the morning was so pretty and peaceful that as I describe it I can almost forget that it was a very, very sad morning for me, a morning that I wish I could strike forever from the Snicket calendar. But I can't erase this day, any more than I can write a happy ending to this book, for the simple reason that the story does not go that way. No matter how lovely the morning was, or how confident the Baudelaires felt about what they had discovered over the course of the night, there isn't a happy ending on the horizon of this story, any more than there was an elephant on the horizon of V.F.D.

“Good morning,” Violet said to Klaus, and yawned.

“Good morning,” Klaus replied. He was holding two books in his arms, but nevertheless he managed to wave at Sunny, who was still crawling toward them. “How did everything go with Hector in the inventing studio?”

“Well, Hector fell asleep a few hours ago,” Violet said, “but I discovered a few small flaws in the self-sustaining hot air mobile home. The engine conductivity was low, due to some problems with the electromagnetic generator Hector built. This meant that the inflation rate of the balloons was often uneven, so I reconfigured some key conduits. Also, the water circulation system was run on ill-fitting pipes, which meant that the selfsustaining aspect of the food center probably wouldn't last as long as it should, so I rerouted some of the aquacycling.”

“Ning!” Sunny called, as she reached her siblings.

“Good morning, Sunny,” Klaus said. “Violet was just telling me that she noticed a few things wrong with Hector's invention, but she thinks she fixed them.”

“Well, I'd like to test the whole device out before we go up in it, if there's time,” Violet said, picking up Sunny and holding her, “but I think everything should work pretty well. It's a fantastic invention. A small group of people could really spend the rest of their lives safely in the air. Did you discover anything in the library?”

“Well, first I discovered that books about V.F.D. rules are actually quite fascinating,” Klaus said. “Rule #19, for instance, clearly states that the only pens that are acceptable within the city limits are ones made from the feathers of crows. And yet Rule #39 clearly states that it is illegal to make anything out of crow feathers. How can the townspeople obey

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