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"In this fifth book the Baudelaire orphans find themselves in a dreadful boarding school where they share a shack with crabs. They go through the school day being tormented by an evil little girl. The teachers are obssessed with their subjects. But, at last they find friends, the Quagmire triplets. As usual Count Olaf finds them but this time they have help from their new friends to stop him.

Crested sapwood supportable noradrenaline runout.

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Sherrie L. Jones, Resident Scholar

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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book? - depressed
Time/era of story - present (2000-2010)
Kids growing up/acting up? Yes
Family, struggle with Yes
Struggle with: - Uncle
Is this an adult or child's book? - Age 11-14
Age group of kid(s) in story: - grade school
Parents/lack of parents problem? - orphan story

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - student
Age: - a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality - British
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - very athletic

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - actor/actress/producer
Eccentric/Smart/Dumb: Yes
Eccentric: - obsessed - eccentric - dumb
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - an average amount
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Dumb
Physique - average physique

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 5 (an average amount)
United States Yes

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
Unusual Style: - a lot of flashback and forwards
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

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