Originally published: New York: HarperCollins Children's, 2000; London: Egmont, 2002.
The three Baudelaire orphans Violet, Klaus and little Sunny, arrive at the Prufrock Preparatory School, only to be met by the unpleasant bully, Carmelita Spats. The children must go to the Orphan's Shack, where fungus grows and crabs live.