'Tweener' Books We Can't Wait to Read

Who Could That Be at This Hour?

By Lemony SnicketLittle, Brown, 272 pp.: $15.99, for ages 9 and up

The first in a four-volume series about a young Lemony Snicket as he begins an apprenticeship in a secret organization, asks questions that shouldn’t be asked, and writes an account of the ordeal that shouldn’t be published, yet is.

(October)