The woeful saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as evil Count Olaf discovers their whereabouts at Esme Gigi Geniveve Squalor's seventy-one bedroom penthouse and concocts a new plan for stealing their family fortune.

On the run as suspected murderers, the unlucky Baudelaire orphans find themselves trapped in the Caligari Carnival, where they must masquerade as freaks in order to hide from the evil Count Olaf.

Eight-year-old Jack and his seven-year-old sister, Annie, learn about the ocean, solve the mystery of its fabled sea monster, and gain compassion for their fellow creatures after joining a group of nineteenth-century explorers aboard the H.M.S. "Challenger.".

Guided by a magic rhyme, Jack and Annie travel to ancient Baghdad on a mission to help the Caliph disseminate wisdom to the world.

Jack and Annie travel back to Victorian London when Merlin asks them to use their magic to inspire Charles Dickens to write "A Christmas Carol.".

When twelve-year-old Gregor finally learns the ancient prophecy, which foretells his death, he must gather his courage to defend Regalia from the army of rats, take his mother and sister home safely, and fight his own dark side.

Arthur really wants to enter a song in the Crunch Cereal Jingle Contest, but when he cannot come up with a good idea, he enters a song his sister wrote instead.

When things change around the house after her baby sister is born, Frances decides to run away--but not too far.

When race caller and television presenter Mark Shillingford confronts his twin sister, Clare, an accomplished and successful jockey, about why she came in second when she should have won a horserace, she storms off and hours later, Clare jumps to her death from the balcony of a London hotel; or so it seems. Devastated and guilty over her death, Mark goes in search of answers.

Despite their best efforts, Carter and Sadie Kane can't seem to keep Apophis, the chaos snake, down. Now Apophis is threatening to plunge the world into eternal darkness. Nothing less than the mortal world is at stake when the Kane family fulfills its destiny in this thrilling conclusion to the Kane Chronicles.