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**Summery/Review**
====After surviving a storm, they find themselves on a coastal shelf of an island inhabited by a mysterious group of people. hey are first greeted by a little girl, Friday. The girl allows the children to come onto the island, but does not allow Olaf to come onto the island. The children meet a strange man, by the name of Ishmael, who introduces the child to the islands customs. The islanders arrive and Count Olaf tries to fool them by disguising himself as Kit Snicket. However, the islanders immediately see through Olaf's disguise and cage him. Olaf tries to tempt the children to let him out of the cage by promising to explain the many mysteries and secrets which they have been surrounded by since //The Bad Beginning//, but they ignore him. The Baudelaire children learn that their parents were once the island's leaders and were responsible for many improvements meant to make island-life easier and more pleasant, but they were eventually overthrown by Ishmael, who believed that a strictly-enforced simple was the best way to avoid conflict. In order to save Kit, Count Olaf eats the bitter apple meant for her and sacrifices himself. The Baudelaires help Kit give birth to a baby girl. Kit then dies due to the Medusoid Mycelium, after asking the orphans to name the baby after their mother. The Baudelaire children become Kit's child's adopted parents, and became the only ones in the island. They bury Kit and Olaf next to each other somewhere on the island. All in all this is a great mystery book that brings together the series to a great conclusion.====

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Lemony Snicket, also known as Daniel Handler, was born in 1970 and raised in San Francisco, where he lives now. He attended Lowell High School and then graduated from Wesleyan University in 1992.As a young child, Daniel was acutely aware of the fact that terrible things sometimes happen to children. His father fled Germany in childhood, and Daniel grew up knowing about the frightening events of the Holocaust at a very tender age. Handler has published novels using his real name for older teens and adults, including //__The Basic Eight__//, //__Watch Your Mouth__//, and Adverbs, which will be appearing sometime in 2005. The name //Lemony Snicket// originally came from research for Handler's first book, //__The Basic Eight__,//Handler wanted to receive material from organizations he found "offensive or funny", but did not want to use his real name, and invented "Lemony Snicket" as a pseudonym. Daniel Handler, still under the name of Lemony Snicket, is to write a new series of four that are presently untitled, to be released in 2012.

**Other Children's Literature**

 * //The Basic Eight// (1998)
 * //A Series of Unfortunate Events// (as Lemony Snicket) (13 books from 1999 to 2006)
 * //Watch Your Mouth// (2000)
 * //Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography// (as Lemony Snicket) (2002)
 * //How to Dress for Every Occasion, by the Pope// (2005)
 * //Adverbs// (2006)
 * //The Beatrice Letters// (as Lemony Snicket) (2006)
 * //Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid// (as Lemony Snicket) (2007)
 * //The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming// (as Lemony Snicket) (2007)
 * //The Lump of Coal// (as Lemony Snicket) (2008)
 * //The Composer is Dead// (as Lemony Snicket) (2009)
 * //13 Words// (as Lemony Snicket) (2010)
 * //Why We Broke Up// (2011)

**Awards**

 * The Academy of American Poets Prize (1992)
 * Wesleyan University's Olin Fellowship (1992-1993)
 * Quill Award for The Penultimate Peril (2006)
 * Colorado Children's Book Award
 * Nevada Young Readers Award

**Major Themes**

 * Dark
 * Mystery
 * Love
 * Death
 * Family
 * Conquering all odds

**Citations**
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