The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket shared by hujul

This book is about the sneaky and cunning Count Olaf who is trying to get ahold of the Baudelaire orphans' giant fortune. He dressed himself up in many various disguises to be their guardian and eventually get their fortune. Mr. Poe, their protector, placed them in a city, called V.F.D., where they would be raised by the people who lived in that village. The orphans were given the options of many different villages, but they chose V.F.D. because in their last adventure, The Ersatz Elevator, their friends Duncan and Isadora Quagmire were kidnapped by Count Olaf. They had the Quagmires' notebook, which had the letters V.F.D. in them, so they thought they might have something in common. When they got to the city, they were put under the care of the town's handyman, Hector. He showed them a couplet, a poem with two rhyming lines that he found, that read, "For sapphires we are held in here, Only you can end our fear." Violet and Klaus, the two oldest Baudelaires, figured that Isadora wrote it, because she loved writing couplets. Sunny, the youngest and only a baby, spoke nonsense a lot, but her siblings knew what she meant. All day long, the orphans and Hector had to do uptown and downtown chores because V.F.D. was absolutely filled with crows, and they roosted uptown in the morning, and then they migrated to downtown. At night, they found another couplet that read, "Until dawn, we cannot speak, No words can come from this sad beak." under Nevermore Tree in Hector's backyard. The next day, they thought about the couplets as they were polishing the towns beloved, but ugly, statue of a crow. They also heard that Count Olaf had been captured, and that he was to be burned at the stake. When they saw him, he looked much different, cleaner and not as thin. The townspeople decided that he was going to be put in jail so he could be burned the day after. Violet and Klaus said that it wasn't him, but they thought it was because of the one eyebrow across his face and the tattoo of an eye on his left ankle. At night, Sunny said that she was going to wait under Nevermore Tree for another couplet to arrive so she could see if someone was delivering them. Hector showed Violet and Klaus to his barn where he had a large inventing studio and a library, but they were forbidden because of the thousands of rules V.F.D. had. They were in their place of best interest, so they were able to work through the night, Violet was helping modify Hector's self-sustaining mobile home, which was a bunch of hot air balloons connected and would never have to come down. Klaus was reading rule books to see if he could get the fake Count Olaf out of jail. Sunny gnawed on dead and fallen twigs while she waited. By morning, Violet had finished modifying Hector's invention, Klaus had figured out how Jacques, the fake Count Olaf, could attempt to get out of jail, or being burned at the stake, and Sunny found another couplet. Jacques was could give a speech pleading his innocence, according to Klaus. The couplet read, "The first thing you read contains the clue: An initial way to speak to you." On the next day, Jacques was found dead in his jail, and the Baudelaires were found guilty. They were to be burned at the stake the next day. They were put in jail, until Hector came around. He gave them another couplet that read, "Inside these letters, the eye will see, Nearby are your friends, and V.F.D." They looked at all the couplets again: "For sapphires we are held in here, Only you can end out fear." "Until dawn, we cannot speak, No words can come from this sad beak." "The first thing you read contains the clue: An initial way to speak to you." " Inside these letters, the eye will see, Nearby are your friends, and V.F.D." They looked at the first letter of every line, it spelled FOUNTAIN. They realized that Duncan and Isadora were in the fountain, but when they were scrubbing it, they didn't see any openings. Detective Dupin, Count Olaf's latest disguise, had fooled everyone into thinking he was dead. He told them he was going to take one of them so he could get their fortune, and the other two were going to burned at the stake. They were able to break out of the jail using water, a spongy loaf of bread, and a bench. They stacked on top of one another, and Sunny was biting onto the bird's open beak. Violet and Klaus toppled over, but Sunny was just dangling off the bird's beak. she started biting higher and higher until she bit onto the crow's eye. Suddenly, the beak opened wider and wider, until out popped Isadora and Duncan Quagmire. Now, Detective Dupin came, and they were to immediately be burned at the stake. Out of nowhere, Hector came flying above them and a rope ladder hung down. Isadora and Duncan climbed up first, followed by Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. Officer Luciana, Olaf's girlfriend, Esme, used a harpoon and shot down the ladder in between Duncan and Violet. She said that if they climbed up, they would still fall.They just climbed down and were left to deal with the angry villagers to V.F., or the Village of Fowl Devotees.