"Who Could That Be at This Hour?"
Also Published as "All the Wrong Questions: Question 1"
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4.2 • 189 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
A New York Times Notable Children's Book of the Year•A Kirkus Best Book of the Year•A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
★ "Fans of A Series of Unfortunate Events will be in heaven."―Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Before the Baudelaires became orphans, before he encountered A Series of Unfortunate Events, even before the invention of Netflix, Lemony Snicket was a boy discovering the mysteries of the world. This is his story.
In a fading town, far from anyone he knew or trusted, a young Lemony Snicket began his apprenticeship in an organization nobody knows about. He started by asking questions that shouldn't have been on his mind. Now he has written an account that shouldn’t be published, in four volumes that shouldn't be read.
This is the first volume.
The mystery continues in When Did You See Her Last?, Shouldn’t You Be in School?, and Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?, all available now.
"Please, it's Lemony Snicket. Enough said."―Booklist
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Snicket, author of the wildly successful Series of Unfortunate Events stories, returns with the first in the projected four-volume All the Wrong Questions series, supplying "autobiographical" accounts of his unusual childhood. Nearly 13 when the book opens, Snicket is beginning his apprenticeship for a mysterious organization under the tutelage of dimwitted S. Theodora Markson, who is ranked dead last in effectiveness by the agency but who may be the source of Snicket's tic of defining vocabulary pedantically, a word which here means, oh, never mind. Unlike Snicket's Unauthorized Autobiography (HarperCollins, 2002), which left readers as uninformed about him as they were before they read it, this account reveals that Lemony is "an excellent reader, a good cook, a mediocre musician, and an awful quarreler." Not mind-blowing, but it's a start. And perhaps not true. Straight answers are hard to find as Snicket and Markson investigate a theft in a seaside town that's been drained of its sea, encountering deception and double crosses at every turn. Full of Snicket's trademark droll humor and maddeningly open-ended, this will have readers clamoring for volume two. Ages 9 up.
Customer Reviews
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Awesome book
I LOVED this book!!!
Lemony Snicket is an amazing author. I read A Series of Unfortunate Events a while before I read this. I was walking through the bookstore looking for the next book in a series I was reading. While I was scanning through the shelves my eye caught the words Lemony Snicket. All I could think was he has another book!!! I read the summary on the back and was kind of confused what it was about and if I should buy it or not. So, I looked it up on my phone and read that it was about Lemony Snicket as a child training for V.F.D. I immediately grabbed the book and bought it. I finished it in two days, and was dying to read the next book. This is definitely a must read.
JUST AMAZING!!!
Read this and was very impressed. Loved it so much.