num_pages: 353
description: 
  Dear Reader,
If this is the first book you found while searching for a book to read next, then the first thing you should know is that this next-to-last book is what you should put down first. Sadly, this book presents the next-to-last chronicle of the lives of the Baudelaire orphans, and it is next-to-first in its supply of misery, despair, and unpleasantness.Probably the next-to-last thing you would like to read about are a harpoon gun, a rooftop sunbathing salon, two mysterious initials, three unidentified triplets, a notorious villain, and an unsavory curry.Next-to-last things are the first thing to be avoided, and so allow me to recommend that you put this next-to-last book down first, and find something else to read next at last, such as the next-to-last book in another chronicle, or a chronicle containing other next-to-last things, so that this next-to-last book does not become the last book you will read.
  With all due respect,
Lemony Snicket
language: English
title: The Penultimate Peril
titlecomplete: The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #12)
characters: Geraldine Julienne, Violet Baudelaire, Sunny Baudelaire, Klaus Baudelaire, Sir, Count Olaf, Kit Snicket, Carmelita Spats, Esmé Squalor, Arthur Poe, Vice Principal Nero
genres: Middle Grade, Audiobook, Childrens, Juvenile, Young Adult, Fantasy, Mystery, Adventure, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 104725
series: A Series of Unfortunate Events
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: The Quill Award
category: Children's Chapter Book/Middle Grade
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers