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Children of the Red King #1: Midnight for Charlie Bone Hardcover – March 1, 2003
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The fabulous powers of the Red King were passed down through his descendants, after turning up quite unexpectedly, in someone who had no idea where they came from. This is what happened to Charlie Bone, and to some of the children he met behind the grim, gray walls of Bloor's Academy.
Charlie Bone has discovered an unusual gift-he can hear people in photographs talking! His scheming aunts decide to send him to Bloor Academy, a school for genius's where he uses his gifts to discover the truth despite all the dangers that lie ahead.
- Print length416 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level3 - 6
- Dimensions5.75 x 1.25 x 8.75 inches
- PublisherOrchard Books
- Publication dateMarch 1, 2003
- ISBN-100439474299
- ISBN-13978-0439474290
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These days stories about schools for budding magicians are inevitably compared to the Harry Potter books. Indeed, British author Nimmo's creation, Bloor's Academy "for gifted children," bears some resemblance to Hogwart's School, but the story itself is quite different. Seemingly ordinary Charlie Bone suddenly discovers that he can hear the thoughts of people in photographs, a talent that dour Grandma Bone and her three baleful sisters work to bend to their own ends by sending him to Bloor's and to its sinister headmaster. It's not an easy year for Charlie despite the friends he makes. Too many people have it in for him as he's swept into an age-old battle being waged by descendants of a powerful king of long ago. A mysterious box, a missing girl, a strange man who flits in and out in the company of three brightly colored cats, and various villains all figure into Charlie's exciting, fast-paced adventure tale, which happily is the first book in planned quintet called Children of the Red King. Harry Potter's myriad fans will be well pleased. --Booklist, January 15, 2003
Readers may come away from this hefty series opener, about a seemingly ordinary British lad who is sent to a special boarding school after discovering that he has magical powers, with a distinct sense of dej vu. It seems that England had a magical Red King seven centuries ago, who disappeared after his wife died and five of his ten children went bad. All ten children are still around in various guises, and, along with occasional descendants, can wield parts of the Red King's magic-so once ten-year-old Charlie reveals that he can hear the people in photographs talking, the nasty camp swoops down to bustle him off to Bloor's Academy. Within Bloor's gloomy stone walls he meets friends and enemies, some of whom are also "Endowed," as he struggles to learn the school's routines, helps rescue a kidnapped schoolmate whose mind has been clouded by the baddies, discovers that his father may not be dead as he's been led to believe, and is stalked by a werewolf. The climactic battle, however, occurs offstage, and though several characters turn out not to be who or what they seem, the revelations are thoroughly telegraphed. The author leaves a few threads dangling, but underestimates her audience if she thinks she's left any major surprises for future episodes. Charlie's adventure adds up to a formulaic, thinly disguised placeholder for the next Harry Potter; a far cry from N
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- Publisher : Orchard Books; Later Printing edition (March 1, 2003)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 416 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0439474299
- ISBN-13 : 978-0439474290
- Reading age : 8 - 13 years, from customers
- Grade level : 3 - 6
- Item Weight : 1.2 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.75 x 1.25 x 8.75 inches
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The story is great. And not a Harry Potter "copy" at all. Actually it's written years before Harry Potter. :)
In the beginning Charlie find out that he can hear the voices of people at photgraphes.
The story starts rolling when his "evil" grandma found out about it.
short recap:
- he has to go to a residental school, even if he doesn't want to because
- his grandmother is screw out his mother consent
- In the school he meets some people who are gonna get his friends, however
- there are alot of kids and even teachers that tries to get 'em down, even try to kill them in the further books
- He founds out that the evil family "Darkwood" kidnaped a girl and sold it and he tries to get it back because its also a student at the school. But thats not easy at all.
- His father is dead. Well, that's what everyone is thinking, but is it true? Who knows....
- He founds out about the manipulations of his own family and some kids!!!
and so on...it's full of great adventures and a good mix of sad, bad, happy and fantastic storys...The whole story is writen in 8 books...And I loves each page of all of them.
READ IT. You will love every singel page of it.
I can't discribe how great this book it. It's so hard to recap it because it's so full of things i just mention that I would actually have to write the whole book down here :) ***** READ IT... Or something is missing in you life. Best book ever.
I hope this could help you.
Oh and 1 more important thing:
If you click on the pictures below the mainpicture a other frontpicture appears. BUT the frontpicture is the mainpicture which you see can see first if you opened the link to get to this page :) So don't worry.
It's not the horrible red cover, it's the nice blue one :)
Thanks for reading :)