The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 10)_clone_clone

A Series of Unfortunate Events  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

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Copyright A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS. The Slippery Slope. Text copyright © 2003 by Lemony Snicket Illustrations copyright © 2003 by Brett Helquist All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Printed in the United States of America. For information address HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019. Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader August 2007 ISBN 978-0-06-155060-7 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Snicket, Lemony. The slippery slope / by Lemony Snicket ; illustrations by Brett Helquist. p. cm. — (A series of unfortunate events ; bk. the 10th) Summary: In the perilous Mortmain Mountains, Klaus and Violet Baudelaire meet another well-read person, who helps them try to rescue Sunny from the villainous Count Olaf and his henchmen as they all near “the last safe place.” ISBN 0-06-441013-7 — ISBN 0-06-029641-0 (lib. bdg.) 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2

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