Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

After a fire killed their parents, three young Baudelaire orphans—Violette, a 14-year-old girl with a scientific mind, Klaus, a 12-year-old boy who reads constantly, and Prunille, a little girl who bites everything within biting distance—are taken in by the wicked Count Olaf, a distant relative, actor, and master of disguise.