We are so sorry that you have chosen to participate in this particularly dreadful internet activity. However, since you insist, a bad beginning is in order. Click on the cover of Mr. Snicket’s first despairing tale to find a link to the database Kids Edition.

Use your Orange County library card and PIN number to log into the database.

Type in “Lemony Snicket” for a one-on-one interview with Daniel Handler, Mr. Snicket’s “spokesman”.

This second installment of the Baudelair children's terrible tale is rife with creepy reptiles and coconut cake.  A dire combination, I know.

Test your reptilian knowledge—or lack of it.

If you’re really brave, try making Coconut Cream Cake at home with adult supervision.

In Book 3, the Baudelaire orphans are off to meet the third distant relative to take them in, Mrs. Anwhistle, other wise known as Aunt Josephine, who lives on Lake Lachrymose and is afraid of just about everything, from the stove to the telephone to doorknobs. Are you afraid…really afraid?

See how well you know your phobias. Beware of contagions.

Having run out of relatives to turn to, the Baudelaire children are placed with the caretaker of the Lucky Smells Lumbermill. Bad news: they must toil under the supervision of a horrible foreman. Worse news: they get bubblegum for lunch. Sadly, bubblegum is usually a thing of great amusement.

Play the Bubblegum Club arcade games.

The Baudelaire children’s stint at the Prufrock Preparatory School turns out to be less than…satisfactory. They are up against dreadful teachers and faculty, like vice principal Nero (who fancies himself a great violinist), and nasty students like the rude and pushy Carmelita Spats.

See how you would fare at Prufrock Prep after a pop quiz.

The orphans have been adopted by a very wealthy couple, Esmé Gigi Geniveve Squalor and her husband Jerome, who live in a penthouse apartment on Dark Avenue. Gigi is obsessed with what is in and out in the world and completely fails to notice the orphans’ brush with death in an empty elevator shaft—not to mention a reappearance from their menacing uncle, Count Olaf.

See how well you can get out.

The Baudelaire orphans have settled in a vile village that has a strict council, a censored library, a prison mishap and a gargantuan Nevermore Tree --- the largest tree the Baudelaires had ever seen --- filled with a flock of scary-looking black crows.

Read an old Polish folktale about a crow in disguise.

 While searching for a place of peace and quiet, the Baudelaire children stumble upon the Heimlich Hospital. They decide that the Hospital’s Library of Records is a good enough place to start searching for clues about their parents’ death as well as figure out how to clear their names from the false accusations published in The Daily Punctilio. Unfortunately, several challenges arise that put the orphans in danger, one of which being the word trick “anagram”.

Learn more about anagrams and figure some out for yourself.

 On the run from Count Olaf, again, the three Baudelaire orphans find refuge in a carnival where they disguise themselves in Madame Lulu's House of Freaks; Violet and Klaus masquerade as the two-headed Beverly/Elliot; Sunny poses as Chabo the Wolf Baby.

Play a series of online carnival games based on this Unfortunate Series of Events.

You should let this slippery book slip out of your hands because the tales inside are much too dreadful.  The Baudelaire's must face a terrible trap, a swarm of snow gnats, a covered casserole dish, and a frightening fire.

But, if you insist on reading this book, you might want to make sure you can identify Count Olaf.

 This book in the series is simply to horrible to describe.

Instead, you might as well check out information about the unfortunate movie they are making of the orphans' malfortune.

Checking into a hotel is usually an enjoyable occasion. But as you know,  the Baudelaire children never experience anything pleasant in their travels.  When the three orphans check into Hotel Denoument to rescue the sugar bowl, they learn that Count Olaf and his awful associates are running rampant throughout the place.  And to top it off, more ghastly people from their past show up to make the orphan's lives even more miserable.  

To find out more about the unpleasant people they encounter, check out this wretched word search.

No one knows what horrors await the Baudelaire orphans in Book Thirteen.  We just know that 13 is an unlucky number and the book will enter this wicked world on Friday the 13th of October.  This book will reveal many shocking secrets! 

Check out 13 Shocking Secrets you'll wish you never know about Lemony Snicket, the Baudelaire orphans, and a secret organization.