The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket

Author:Lemony Snicket
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Brothers and Sisters, Humorous Stories, Family, Action & Adventure, Social Science, Juvenile Fiction, Klaus (Fictitious character), Architects, General, Photographers, Violet (Fictitious character), Orphans & Foster Homes, Artists, Baudelaire, Siblings, Sunny (Fictitious character), Fiction, Biography & Autobiography, Orphans, Media Tie-In, Criminology
ISBN: 9780061146336
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2004-10-26T04:00:00+00:00

A Series of Unfortunate Events 3- The Wide Window

A great gust of wind interrupted Klaus as it came through the shattered window and shook the library as if it were maracas, a word which describes rattling percussion instruments used in Latin American music. Everything rattled wildly around the library as the wind flew through it. Chairs and footstools flipped over and fell to the floor with their legs in the air. The bookshelves rattled so hard that some of the heaviest books in Aunt Josephine's collection spun off into puddles of rainwater on the floor. And the Baudelaire orphans were jerked violently to the ground as a streak of lightning flashed across the darkening sky.

“Let's get out of here!” Violet shouted over the noise of the thunder, and grabbed her siblings by the hand. The wind was blowing so hard that the Baudelaires felt as if they were climbing an enormous hill instead of walking to the door of the library. The orphans were quite out of breath by the time they shut the library door behind them and stood shivering in the hallway.

“Poor Aunt Josephine,” Violet said. “Her library is wrecked.”

“But I need to go back in there,” Klaus said, holding up the note. “We just found out what Aunt Josephine means by Curdled Cave , and we need a library to find out more.”

“Not that library,” Violet pointed out. “All that library had were books on grammar. We need her books on Lake Lachrymose .”

“Why?” Klaus asked.

“Because I'll bet you anything that's where Curdled Cave is,” Violet said, “in Lake Lachrymose . Remember she said she knew every island in its waters and every cave on its shore? I bet Curdled Cave is one of those caves.”

“But why would her secret message be about some cave?” Klaus asked.

“You've been so busy figuring out the message,” Violet said, “that you don't understand what it means. Aunt Josephine isn't dead. She just wants people to think she's dead. But she wanted to tell us that she was hiding. We have to find her books on Lake Lachrymose and find out where Curdled Cave is.”

“But first we have to know where the books are,” Klaus said. “She told us she hid them away, remember?”

Sunny shrieked something in agreement, but her siblings couldn't hear her over a burst of thunder.

“Let's see,” Violet said. “Where would you hide something if you didn't want to look at it?”

The Baudelaire orphans were quiet as they thought of places they had hidden things they did not want to look at, back when they had lived with their parents in the Baudelaire home. Violet thought of an automatic harmonica she had invented that had made such horrible noises that she had hidden it so she didn't have to think of her failure. Klaus thought of a book on the Franco- Prussian War that was so difficult that he had hidden it so as not to be reminded that he wasn't old enough to read it. And Sunny

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