The Hostile Hospital
Brett Helquist, Lemony Snicket
Readers rate it 3.8 (359 on Hardcover)
272 pages · Released May 1, 2003 · Egmont Books Ltd
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This is the eighth book in *A Series of Unfortunate Events*, a gothic-tinged mystery series for middle-grade readers that balances dark humor with genuine peril and clever problem-solving. The story involves the orphans facing threats in a hospital setting, with references to danger and surgery, but violence is largely implied rather than graphic. The series emphasizes the Baudelaires' resilience, loyalty, and resourcefulness in the face of systematic villainy.
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There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery and despair. You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming and clever Baudelaire children read on...The Hostile Hospital - There are many pleasant things to read about, but this book... There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery and despair. You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming and clever Baudelaire children read on...The Hostile Hospital - There are many pleasant things to read about, but this book contains none of them. Within its pages are such burdensome details as a suspicious shopkeeper, unnecessary surgery, heartshaped balloons, and some very starling news about a fire. Clearly you do not want to read about such things.
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- Juvenile fiction
- Orphans
- Medical fiction
- Brothers and sisters
- Children's fiction
- Orphans, fiction
- Brothers and sisters, fiction
- Humorous stories
- Fiction
- Hospitals
- Récits humoristiques anglais
- English Humorous stories
Books in the A Series of Unfortunate Events series
Full series in order →
The Bad Beginning - Book 1 of A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events #2)
A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Miserable Mill - Book 4 of A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Ersatz Elevator (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 6)
The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 7)
The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events #10)
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ISBN 9781405206129 · Egmont Books Ltd