The Austere Academy is the fifth book about them in Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events. In each one the author warns you that if you don't like unhappy endings then you had better put the book down right now. And he's right because nothing good ever happens to them. In this book the orphans are sent to Prufrock Preparatory. It is a horrid school. Without a permission form to sleep in a comfortable dormitory, you have to sleep in a shack with crabs and fungus and green walls with pink hearts on them. The two nastiest people in the school are vice-principal Nero, who thinks he is a genius at the violin (he's not), and Carmelita Spats, "a rude, violent and mean" girl who always calls the orphans and their friends "cake-sniffers". As usual Count Olaf turns up in disguise, but I won't tell you who he is because that will give it away.