A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Reptile Room (Snicket)

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Reptile Room, Lenomy Snicket (aka Daniel Handler), 1999

A pleasant follow-up finds the Baudelaire children with their kind, friendly Uncle Monty, a herpetologist, who raises reptiles. Unfortunately, some unfortunate events happen ... except that these don't seem to be random events. It's the work of the greedy Count Olaf, who is back again to get his hands on the Baudelaire fortune.

No sophomore jinx with this book.