The Reptile Room

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Reptile Room

Lemony Snicket

©1999

190 Pages

Ages 9-12

Summary

Mr. Poe takes the children to live with their Uncle Monty, Dr. Montgomery Montgomery, who knew their parents more than the children are led to believe. Uncle Mony shows Violet, Klaus, and Sunny his pride and joy. The Reptile Room is a gigantic hall filled with all sorts of reptiles. His most recent addition to the room is a snake that he calls the incredibly deadly viper, a name that is a misnomer. Uncle Monty tells the children that they are to get ready for a trip to Peru as soon as his new assistant arrives. The children like Uncle Monty and are excited to go to Peru until they new assistant arrives. Though Uncle Monty introduces the children to his assistant, Stephano, the children recognize him for who he really is, Count Olaf. They try to warn Uncle Monty that it was really Count Olaf, but Olaf manages to divert the accusations and keep Monty in the dark. Later they find Monty dead in the Reptile Room with two puncture marks in his neck. When the doctor arrives, he declares that Monty died of a snake bite from the incredibly deadly viper. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny, however, know that the incredibly deadly viper is one of the least harmful creatures in the animal kingdom. Sunny finds the viper and starts playing with it, proving their assertion, and exposing Count Olaf and his theater group for who they are. The children are then taken to their new guardian.

Other books in the Series:

The Bad Beginning

The Reptile Room

The Wide Window

The Miserable Mill

The Austere Academy

The Ersatz Elevator

The Vile Village

The Hostile Hospital

The Carnivorous Carnival

The Slippery Slope

The Grim Grotto

The Penultimate Peril

The End

Other Books by the Author:

Horse Radish

The Unauthorized Autobiography

The Beatrice Letters