Chapter Book #7 The Series of Unfortunate Events: The Reptile Room

TITLE: The Reptile Room
AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR: This book was written by Lemony Snicket
GENRE: Fiction Chapter Book
THEME: family, courage, thinking-skills
AWARDS: n/a
CHARACTERS: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, Uncle Monty, Stefano (Count Olaf)

PUBLISHING DATE AND COMPANY: Scholastic, 1999

SUMMARY: This is the second book in the "Series of Unfortunate Events" following the Baudelaire children.  After surviving the dreadful living situation with Count Olaf, the children are moved to Uncle Monty's house.  Uncle Monty is a strange, caring man who absolutely adores reptiles.  He provides the siblings with all that they could ever need.  However, their luck is running out (again).  Uncle Monty hires a man from Peru, named Stefano, to work with him with the reptiles.  Stefano turns out to be no other than Count Olaf.  Throughout this story, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny have to work together, again, in order to escape Count Olaf.  They are still solving the long mystery of their parents death throughout the story.  This book is great to use in a classroom because it shows children that unique talents and people are always needed in order to survive bad situations.