A Series of unfortunate events *The Hostile hospital*. I would tell the kid that when the characters were little there parents died from fire and nobody knows how. The 5-year-old I would tell might not like this story because the kids are accused of murder. I’d give him details from the other stories. The summary is there are three orphans. Their parents died when the kids went to the beach alone from a house fire. Then they had to live with many guardians the one they hated was Count Olaf with one eyebrow and an eye tattoo. The three kids are accused of murder when they are innocent so they are trying to flee the police. Now they are at a hospital in the library of records where they try to find what happened to an old character that was killed. In every book, something Unfortunate happens to the characters because of Count Olaf.