Snicket, Lemony <br/><br/>
The reptile room / 
by Lemony Snicket ; illustrated by Brett Helquist. 
 - New York :  HarperCollins Publishers,  1999. 
 - 190 p. 
 - A series of unfortunate events ; bk. 2 .
<br/><br/> After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-06-440767-5 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Orphans--Fiction<br/>Brothers and sisters--Fiction<br/>Humorous stories