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Charlie Bone And The Shadow (Charlie Bone)

Jenny Nimmo

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Total reviews: 10 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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The enchanter Count Harken is back to take his revenge on the Red King's heirs, starting with Charlie Bone's family! Charlie's ancestor has been kidnapped and imprisoned in the dark, forbidding land of Badlock, and it's up to Charlie to save him. Traveling through a painting to the terrifying countryside, Charlie and his best friend's dog, Runner Bean, take up the quest. But when Runner Bean gets trapped, Charlie needs the help of his friends. Can they get past an army of trolls, rescue Runner Bean and Charlie's ancestor, and get out before it's too late?

Can Charlie outwit Court Harken and his sinister troops, or will the prisoners be doomed to being held captive in Badlock forever?

Jenny Nimmo is an award-winning author who lives with her painter husband in a converted mill in Wales. Her books include THE SNOW SPIDER, winner of the Smarties Prize, EMYLN'S MOON, THE CHESTNUT SOLDIER, and GRIFFIN'S CASTLE, which was shortlisted for the Smarties Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Award, and the W.H. Smith's Mind Boggling Award. THE OWL TREE won the Smarties Gold Prize Award for six- to eight-year-olds, and THE CHARLIE BONE books have repeatedly found their way on to bestseller lists.

Charlie Bone and The Beast (Children Of The Red King, Book 6)

Jenny Nimmo

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Total reviews: 22 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Best Charlie Bone Book, Yet 5 out of 5 stars.
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Charlie Bone and the Beast is an intriguing book, and - though it is a fairly quick read - it will keep you interested the whole time.

The sixth Charlie Bone book in the series, Charlie Bone and the Beast starts with a new student starting at Bloor's Academy: Dagbert Endless, a boy whose endowment is to control the tides. It soon becomes clear, however, that he is NOT on Charlie's side. Unfortunately (yet inevitably, it seems), Charlie must be his mentor at Bloor's Academy. Dagbert soon makes quick work of insulting almost all of Charlie's friends, and turning them away from him.

Charlie Bone and the Beast has several plot lines, but the main one is how Charlie must reunite with his friends to find Asa Pike, who switched sides in the last book. Meanwhile, the Bloors are plotting to lure Bone and his friends into a trap. And all the while, a mysterious knight is appearing, and one of Charlie's new friends who is surely on his side is becoming mysterious.

I personally like books with intricate plot lines, and this book is a real page-turner. You'll recognize the characters from other books. I am also very glad that Jenny Nimmo doesn't waste too much time going over the other books in plain site for new readers - she blends it fantastically into the book without disturbing the story.

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Life should be perfect for Charlie now that his parents have been reunited. But mystery and adventure always find him. This time Asa, a fellow classmate who changes into a beast at dusk, and Charlie's sometime-enemy, is missing. His parents seek out Charlie for help. Manfred is holding Asa captive in a forest cave and now Charlie needs the help of the Flames to rescue his classmate.

Manfred has also taken the new endowed student, Dagobert Endless, under his wing and Charlie is highly suspicious of the pair. Can the Flames and Charlie rescue Asa without being caught by Manfred and Dagobert?

Midnight for Charlie Bone (The Children of the Red King, Book 1)

Jenny Nimmo

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Total reviews: 192 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Harry Potter Facsimile 1 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I truly, truly believe that this series was an 1000 times worse copy of Harry Potter. I was reading and I kept thinking, "I know this plot." It got very annoying when I knew it was Harry Potter. I was completely dissapointed with this, because I was expecting a lot. I got a box set and I don't want anything to do with it. I think it's cheap to have the exact same thing of Harry Potter. I don't want to be rude to the author, because she must've put effort into writing a book, but you want to be original, and especially not something from such a popular series as Harry Potter. Can I get my $30 back??

Editorial Review:

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.

Charlie Bone and the Time Twister (The Children of the Red King, Book 2)

Jenny Nimmo

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Total reviews: 64 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

My son is hooked! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I bought my 10 yr old son the first two of this series and it has taken him a month to finish them- he is hooked! I am about to order the next couple in the series as he is dying to get back to reading. It doesn't get much better than that!!

a good fantasy 5 out of 5 stars.
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I love to read. I read a wonderful fantasy called Charlie Bone and the

Time Twister. The book was written by Jenny Nimmo. The author must

have a good imagination to think of special powers.

The book begins with a young boy named Henry from the 1900's

playing marbles. Henry was sent to the future when his brother rolled the

time twister. Henry was sent ahead 90 years where he meets a boy named

Charlie Bone. Henry asked Charlie to help him get back to his own time.

You have to read the book to see if Henry made it back.

Charlie Bone and the Time Twister is one of my favorite books. I

would refer it to fantasy readers. It is kind of like the Harry Potter books

because of the special powers.

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One-ply towels Natural paper. 10-3/8 x 9-1/2 sheets.

Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy (The Children of the Red King, Book 3)

Jenny Nimmo

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Total reviews: 60 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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British boy with catchy name and unusual powers, check. Wild hair, check. Students at boarding school, check. Owls and funny street names, check. Mysterious shape-shifting enemies out to get the affable boy protagonist, check. Jenny Nimmo's "Children of the Red King" series (starring Charlie Bone) has so many of the same trappings as the Harry Potter series that, unfortunately, comparison is unavoidable. Rowling's books clearly trump these simpler fantasies for younger readers--but the Charlie Bone books are finding their audience in those who need a boy-wizard fix and need it now.

Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy, the third book in the author's planned quintet, begins when the magically "endowed" Charlie and his friend Emma discover a mostly invisible, strawberry jam-loving boy named Ollie Sparks imprisoned in the attic of the Hogwartsian Bloor's Academy. Ollie's plight is part of a seemingly amorphous Larger Evil Plot involving school authorities, a blue boa, and Charlie's three horrible great aunts. Charlie Bone and his friends are eager to fight wrongdoing with their combination of special powers, but obstacles in all shapes and sizes abound. Can the children rescue Ollie, Charlie's uncle, Ollie's older brother, and the other hapless victims...or are the enemies too plentiful and powerful? Despite the likeable Charlie and a plethora of magical happenings (raining frogs, sorcerers who escape paintings, etc.), reading this 408-page fantasy feels like a bit like running a marathon where the finish line feels farther away with every step. Thankfully, the ending is a happy one. (Ages 10 and older) --Karin Snelson

Charlie Bone and The Castle Of Mirrors (Children of the Red King Book 4)

Jenny Nimmo

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Total reviews: 41 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

The Balance Must Be Kept! 4 out of 5 stars.
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Charlie Bone, whose life has NEVER been easy, gets slammed with a whole new problem in CASTLE OF MIRRORS. Old Ezekial Bloor and Charlie's aunts, the Yewbeam sisters, have managed to resurrect a ghostly horse creature that they believe has the heart of an old, fierce warrior named Borlath. They indend to use the creature against Charlie and his other endowed friends at Bloor's Academy. However, something has gone drastically wrong.

Just as with the previous Charlie Bone books, author Jenny Nimmo keeps a lot of balls in the air. A lot of possibilities and threats dangle in front of the reader as they cruise through this tale. It seems as though disaster and defeat lurk around every corner.

Charlie is still looking for his father Lyle, whom everyone believe is dead but Charlie is certain is still alive. Poor Billy Raven still hasn't been adopted, but he gets adopted in this one--by the most evil people in the world.

More of the Yewbeam family lineage is discovered, as well as what happened to many of the Red King's children. The things that bind Charlie and his friends, family ties as well as personal stakes, grow even stronger in this novel.

I read these books to my nine-year-old, who enjoys them immensely and takes the tests on the Accelerated Reader program at his school. I enjoy how easy they are to read aloud, and the degree of history that Nimmo has put in each of her novels, building on what has gone on before. The plots do tend to be somewhat repetitive, but they are Charlie Bone books. They tell a certain kind of story with certain elements that the young readers require.

The Charlie Bone books are great escapist fiction for the Harry Potter crowd while they're waiting on the final book in that series. And Charlie Bone hasn't quite progressed to the level of darkness that the Potter books have. Charlie Bone still guarantees excitement AND laughs.

Editorial Review:

Back in Bloor's Academy, Charlie's power takes on a new dimension. He meets a new gallery of characters, including Mr. Pilgrim's replacement, Tantalus Ebony, and the mysterious new student Joshua Tilpin, who appears to be magnetic. But not all is well. Billy has been adopted by the O'Gres, a child-hating couple, who carry with them a gray bag of oaths wherever they go, seducing Billy to sign an oath of obedience, before locking him up behind a force field in an odd place called The Passing House.

Charlie Bone And The Hidden King (Children of the Red King Book 5)

Jenny Nimmo

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Total reviews: 40 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

An Interesting Twist 4 out of 5 stars.
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In the fifth installment of the Children of the Red King series, Charlie Bone is approaching the end of his task: finding his father. However, many shocks await him and readers, including the surprising identity of Miss Chrystal, the return of the Red King painting's shadow, and Joshua Tilpin's origins, to name a few. An excellent read, especially for those who would like their eyebrows raised about a hundred times (every time they read a new surprise). Although this book is somewhat inferior to some of the others in plot( i.e. Midnight for Charlie Bone), it more than makes up for this in the way Jenny Nimmo packs action into its ink.

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When Charlie turns twelve on New Year's Eve, the Flame Cats give him a grave warning: Something ancient has awoken, and Charlie must be watchful. Soon Charlie learns that the shadow from the Red King's portrait has been released, and that it will do anything to keep Charlie from finding his father. Meanwhile, pets are mysteriously vanishing from the city, and Olivia is in danger of revealing her newfound powers.

Charlie Bone and the Shadow of Badlock

Jenny Nimmo

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Midnight for Charlie Bone

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Charlie Bone and the Blue Boa

Jenny Nimmo

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This is not a new Charlie Bone book! 1 out of 5 stars.
46 of 48 people found this review helpful.

I was very excited to see that a new Charlie Bone book had come out, but unfortunately after the first page I realized I had already read this book before. It is actually the third book in the series, Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy. Great book, just hated that I wasted my money on a book which I already have a copy.

NOT A NEW CHARLIE BONE BOOK! 1 out of 5 stars.
30 of 32 people found this review helpful.

This book is merely the same thing as The Invisible Boy, only the UK Version. Not worth buying!

charlie bone and the blue boa 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book was superb! This one of the best Jenny Nimmo has writen. As Charlie gets older more of his past is revealed. I have read all her books and am very anxious to see if he writes more.

Charlie Bone 5 out of 5 stars.
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Charlie Bone is a great series. Its about a boy and his endow ment (the book explains an endow ment) It has a lot of fun magic and mystiry envolvoled.