Name: The Wide Window | A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 3 (Book Summary) - Minute Book Report
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Relative clauses (Restrictive vs. nonrestrictive)

This is a story about three orphans named Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, who,

having escaped Count Olaf from stealing their family fortune, move in with Aunt Josephine,

Participle clauses with adverbial meaning

a widow who lives in a house with a beautiful view overlooking Lake Lachrymose.

Aunt Josephine likes grammar and is afraid of everything, including cooking with the

Aunt Josephine takes the children to town to buy groceries and meets Captain Sham, a

The children immediately recognize that Captain Sham is Count Olaf in disguise, but Aunt Josephine

One evening, the children hear a crash and find a note from Aunt Josephine saying that

she jumped out of the window and that the children should live with Captain Sham.

The children read the note closely and, because it's written in such poor grammar, suspect

Mr. Poe, a family friend, comes over to the house and determines that the note matches

the handwriting of Aunt Josephine, even though the children are convinced the note is from

Captain Sham, Mr. Poe, and the children have lunch in town, but the children purposely

give themselves an allergic reaction and go back to the house to figure things out.

Klaus analyzes the letter closely and determines that although Aunt Josephine wrote the note,

she left clues that she is hiding in a nearby cave called Curdled Cave.

As the approaching hurricane grows stronger, the children escape the house before it falls

Because the local ferry is closed, the children steal a boat from Captain Sham and find Aunt

Aunt Josephine explains that she faked her death with the note and wants to stay in the

cave, but decides to go back to town to expose Captain Sham.

As they travel across the lake, the Lachrymose Leeches, deadly leeches that eat people, attack

As the boat begins to sink, Violet creates a signal fire and a rescue boat assists them.

However, the rescue boat is captained by Captain Sham and his accomplice.

Before returning back to the dock, Captain Sham pushes Aunt Josephine into the lake and

Once on the dock, the children try to plea with Mr. Poe that Captain Sham is Count Olaf,

Sunny bites Captain Sham's peg leg and it's revealed to be a fake.

In the end, Count Olaf gets away and Mr. Poe takes the children to live with another relative.