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Note from the Librarian: We have all of the “A Library Newsletter Series of Unfortunate Events” books written by Lemony Snicket in our library. We also have “File Volume 2 – Issue 22 Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents” and “Who Could February 26, 2020 That be at this Hour?” by Lemony Snicket The 12 Most Checked Out Books in Our Author of the Week Library: Daniel Handler 1. Tales from a Not-so-happily Ever After by Rachel Renee Russell – 63 Check Outs (Lemony Snicket) 2. Smile by Raina Telgemeier – 52 Check Outs Birthday: February 28, 1970 3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney - 50 Check Outs He turns 50 this year! 4. Tales from a Not-so-glam TV Star by bgvf About Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket): Rachel Renee Russell – 37 Check Outs 5. Don't let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Daniel Handler is an American writer and musician. He is Mo Willems – 35 Check Outs best known for his children's series A Series of 6. Tales from a Not-so-dorky Drama Queen Unfortunate Events and All the Wrong Questions, by Rachel Renee Russell - 34 Check Outs published under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket. The 7. Tales from a Not-so-friendly Frenemy by former was adapted into a Nickelodeon film in 2004 as Rachel Renee Russell – 33 Check Outs well as a Netflix series from 2017 to 2019. Handler was 8. Tales from a Not-so-secret Crush born in San Francisco, California, the son of Sandra Catastrophe by Rachel Renee Russell – 33 Handler a retired City College of San Francisco Dean, and Check Outs Louis Handler, an accountant. His father was a Jewish 9. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley's refugee from Germany, and he is distantly related to Journal by Jeff Kinney – 32 Check Outs British writer Hugh Walpole through his mother. He has 10. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway by a younger sister, Rebecca Handler. Handler has been a Jeff Kinney – 31 Check Outs voracious reader since childhood, and his favorite author 11. Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier – 31 Check was William Maxwell. He attended Commodore Sloat Outs Elementary, Herbert Hoover Middle School, and Lowell 12. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth by High School. He graduated from Wesleyan University in Jeff Kinney – 31 Check Outs 1992. He was awarded the 1992 Connecticut Student Poet Prize, which he claims was earned by ripping off Elizabeth Bishop. He is an alumnus of the San Francisco Boys Chorus. Handler wrote the bestselling series of 13 novels A Series of Unfortunate Events under the Snicket pseudonym from 1999 to 2006. The books concern three orphaned children who experience increasingly terrible events following the death of their parents and burning of their home (done by a man named Count Olaf and his Fifth Grade’s Virginia Murphy with her book report troupe of associates), and Snicket acts as the narrator on “A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad and biographer of the fictional orphans. Beginning” by Lemony Snicket .

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