# The Austere Academy

**Author(s):** Michael Kupperman, Brett Helquist, Lemony Snicket
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
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**Genres:** gaslamp-fantasy, mystery, gothic-horror, middle-grade, literary-fiction
**Publisher:** Farshore
**Published:** Tue Jan 01 2002 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780749747039
**ISBN-10:** 074974703X
**ASIN:** 074974703X
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-austere-academy

## Series
- A Series of Unfortunate Events (#5)

## Description

As the three Baudelaire orphans warily approach their new home 埐rufrock Preparatory School : they can't help but notice the enormous stone arch bearing the school's motto Memento Mori or "Remember you will die." This is not a cheerful greeting and certainly marks an inauspicious beginning to a very bleak story just as we have come to expect from Lemony Snickett's Series of Unfortunate Events, the deliciously morbid set of books that began with The Bad Beginning and only got worse. Ages 10+

## SageChimp reader verdict

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