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    Charlie Bone and the Hidden King

    Written by Jenny Nimmo

    Narrated by Simon Russell Beale

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    About this audiobook

    The next installment in the New York Times bestselling series, CHARLIE BONE AND THE HIDDEN KING

    In Charlie's most perilous adventure yet, the shadow from the Red King's portrait has escaped. Strange things start to happen at Bloor's Academy. But, with the help of a mysterious force, Charlie and his friends are closer to discovering the truth about Charlie Bone's father.

    Children of the Red King Series
    Book 1: Midnight for Charlie Bone
    Book 2: Charlie Bone and the Time Twister
    Book 3: Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy
    Book 4: Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors



    From the Compact Disc edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 10, 2006
    ISBN9780307286079
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    Charlie Bone and the Hidden King
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    Jenny Nimmo

    Jenny Nimmo has been an actor, researcher, floor-manager and script editor for children’s television. Her first book ‘The Bronze Trumpeter’ was published in 1975. ‘The Snow Spider’ won the Tir na N’Og award and the Smarties Grand Prix. Her most recent book, for older readers, is ‘Milo’s Wolves’. Jenny Nimmo was born in Windsor, Berkshire and now lives in Wales with her artist husband and three bi-lingual children.

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    • 5/5
      Ever since his father died in a car accident, Charlie Bone has lived with his mom, uncle, and two grandmothers (one who is horrible and another who is much more grandmotherly). His family is definitely an interesting mix of personalities. When Charlie starts hearing voices, he thinks he's going crazy, but he soon finds out that he has a special gift. As a descendant of the Red King, he's able to look at pictures and hear the thoughts of the people in the pictures at the time they were taken. What he hears makes him wonder about a girl who went missing years before, and he decides to track her down using clues brought back from the past. If only he had time to work on the mystery! Now that his endowment has been revealed, his crazy (and seemingly evil) aunts stop by, and they're thrilled because it means he's been “chosen”. Charlie is not so happy about this because he has to leave his house, his best friend, and his uncle to start attending Bloor’s Academy. Although he can come home for weekends, he's now surrounded by people he doesn't know, and it's hard to fit in. Everyone at Bloor's has a "special gift", and he isn't sure about anything. With every step he takes Charlie seems to be in more danger, plus a strange box that he must protect comes into his possession. Will Charlie be able to solve the mystery of the missing girl? What secrets does Bloor’s Academy hold? Is the strange box worth holding onto, and what's inside of it? One thing is for sure, Charlie has a few mysteries to uncover that will keep him guessing!

      I didn’t know much about Midnight for Charlie Bone (Children of the Red King: Book One) by Jenny Nimmo when I started reading it. I enjoyed her writing style and the magical elements in the book. Can you imagine looking at a photograph and hearing the people’s thoughts? The secrets revealed to you would be crazy! I found myself on the edge of my seat, as there was a new twist and turn at the end of each chapter. Charlie is a kid that I would be friends with because he seems nice and clever. He is also very easy-going, so I felt especially bad for him that he had one mean grandmother and a set of aunts that gave me the creeps- definitely made me thankful for my grandmothers! It was fun trying to solve the mystery myself, and I liked the fantasy elements. There are some parts of the book that will appeal to Harry Potter fans, but the story is different. The only thing I was unhappy about was that the book didn’t answer all of my questions in the end because it ended with “To be continued”. But, on the plus side, the book is part of a series, and the whole series is finished. So I will have to read Charlie Bone and the Time Twister, and I recommend you have it nearby if you start the first one. If you're a fan of fantasy, and you're between fourth and seventh grade, I think you will enjoy this book.
    • 3/5
      Wattered-down Harry Potter.
    • 4/5
      Enjoyable but very forgettable.
    • 4/5
      fun book to read
    • 4/5
      I bought it cause it looked like a Harry Potter knock off.
      It's pretty funny.

      I liked it. I read it a long time ago, so I don't remember everything.
    • 4/5
      If you can't get enough of Harry Potter, then try this series. British boarding school, students have special powers, good struggles against evil. Great narration - perfect series to pick up over the summer.
    • 4/5
      This novel is undeniably Harry Potter lite. Although aimed at a younger audience (and therefore a lot lighter and simpler in tone), it contains many aspects that have been clearly inspired by Rowling's series. The main character is verbally abused by cruel relatives, he attends a boarding school for gifted youngsters, werewolves, abnormally intelligent cats, talking pictures and a climax reminiscent of the Triwizard Tournament. Because of this, it suffers from the fact that I found myself endlessly comparing it to Harry Potter and finding that it was just a pale imitation.Yet this did not prevent Charlie Bone from being an enjoyable novel in its own right. The pacing was excellent and it concluded satisfactory manner while still leaving enough open to make me curious as to where it will go next. It also presented a good mixture of magical and non-powered characters while succeeding in making the normal children still seem on equal footing to the more extraordinary.While not all members of the cast are well fleshed out in this novel, I get the impression that they will be developed further in future volumes. I'm especially looking for this with regards to the villains, who seemed to have little motivation in this novel. I'm curious to discover what their motivations actually are.All in all, it was a pretty sound children's book and would be a nice read for a child who loves fantasy but is maybe a little too young for Harry Potter.
    • 3/5
      It's not harry Potter, really it's not! The young boy with the mean relatives only lost ONE of his parents in a mysterious car accident, and he's not a wizard, he's endowed, and the kids at the mysterious bording school get to go home for weekends... ok, it is kind of Harry Potter, or riding that bandwagon, anyway, but it's different, too. It's got a bit more of a mythic feel. Anyway, it was interesting enough that I'll be reading volume #2.
    • 3/5
      Oh, if you liked Harry Potter you will like Charlie Bone! That's what people told me. Actually, the opposite is true. I love Harry Potter, so I can tell how derivative Charlie Bone is. It was published 5 years after Harry Potter, so you cant claim that Nimmo did not know Rowling's work. There is not that much suspense and little surprise in the book. One of the characters might be a werewolf -- oh, guess what, he is! And Nimmo is not half as good a writer as Rowling, so this book really has little to recommend it, and I'm just sorry I read the whole thing when I could have moved on to something more interesting.
    • 2/5
      Is this series going anywhere? My son highly recommends it, but so far it's doing nothing for me....
    • 4/5
      Das ist ein wirklich schönes Jugendbuch über einen Jungen mit einer besonderen Begabung: Er kann Fotos " sprechen" hören. Es gibt auch andere Kinder mit solchen Sonderbegaungen ( einer kann mit Tieren sprechen, eine kann fliegen) und all diese Kinder sind in einem Internat. Doch Charlie Bone hat auch noch einen guten, wenn auch einsamen Freund zu Hause, sowie seine ganz normale Mutter. Sein Vater ist vor vielen Jahren gestorben, auch er war sonderbegabt, für Musik. Das Buch ist eine Mischung aus Rubinrot, nur ohne Liebe, und Harry Potter, wenn auch nicht ganz so witzig und durchdacht wie dieser. Trotzdem hat es mir sehr gut gefallen. Der erste Teil ist abgeschlossen und lässt trotzdem noch genügend Spielraum für den zweiten Teil.
    • 4/5
      Really good bedtime story, I really enjoyed reading it to my son and am looking forward to reading the rest of the series. Some similarities to Harry Potter, but a good read. My one problem was all the spelling mistakes and errors in it, really put me off when reading!
    • 1/5
      Very bad, very obvious Harry Potter rip off. Do not bother.
    • 5/5
      also a very good series, if your into action and mystery, this is the book for you.
    • 5/5
      this book is great for children my teacher suggested it to me and i bought all three books because i enjoyed the first one so muchi would say that the book is for elementary kids, but i can still enjoy now, today.so as it turns out charlie has special powers and he goes to this school for gifted kids and learns how to use them. thats it thats all im saying just read them
    • 5/5
      this is a very fun book even for girls. when i was reading this i felt like i was in a mystical world trying to find out the mystery. its kind of like hair potter but i say better and shorter.
    • 5/5
      This is a fantistic story simply told. This book shows that thoughtful and sophisticated plot do not necessarily need complicated prose. This is not to say the book is poorly written, because it is not. It is an easy read the that my kids will probably get tired of me encouraging them to read. I really enjoyed this book and look forward to finding the next one in the series.
    • 4/5
      Jenny Nimmo's Midnight for Charlie Bone talked about a buy named Charlie who could hear the people in the photos talking. It all happended when Charlie got the photos from his mother, then he started to hear something. He glanced down at his picture and heard the conversation between 2 senoirs. This book is quite interesting. I thought that this book would of have been better. I heard people say that this book was really interesting. I would recommend this book to children ages 9- any age because their is a lot of imagining happening in this book.
    • 3/5
      Fans of the Harry Potter series will want to give this magical series, about a boy who discovers he's got magical powers and is sent off to school to develop them, a try although the similarity between the two stories ends there. In this story Charlie does not accept his powers and does not like his school, and readers may like the conspiracy aspect of this story. Although the plot is a bit predictable, I think that fantasy fans will enjoy this first book in the series, and may want to go one to read the sequels.
    • 1/5
      A very, very bad Harry Potter wannabe. This book is what Harry Potter would have been if JK Rowling didn't have talent.
    • 4/5
      Nimmo, Jenny, Midnight for Charlie Bone, Chldren of the Red King Book 1 Descendants of the Red King have strange Powers - at ten, Charlie finally discovers that he can hear people in pictures. He is sent to Bloor's Academy, where he meets others with strange talents - some good, some evil.
    • 4/5
      Ten year old Charlie Bone discovers he has a unique talent - he can hear the thoughts of people in photographs. Charlie's Grandmother Bone and her sisters are delighted that Charlie has inherited powers, the gift runs in the family and his late father also was one of the "endowed". They insist that Charlie attend Bloor's Academy where he can further develop his powers. Charlie reluctantly goes and soon realizes there are odd things going on at Bloor's. Before he quite knows exactly what is going on, Charlie is deep in a mystery involving a case with something mysterious inside it and a missing child and also discovers his father may not be dead after all. "Midnight for Charlie Bone" was a good first book in what looks like a promising series. Comparisons with Harry Potter are inevitable but the book should be judged on it's own merit and it's not bad at all. Charlie is a strong character, a good friend to misfit Benjamin, and his struggles with his newly developed powers are very real. The other children in the book are well written, especially the delightful Olivia. The adults in the book are either just plain bad, or, with the exception of Charlie's Uncle Paton, good but ineffectual. Even though the book is 400 pages long, parts of it felt rushed, especially the ending and the surrender of the bad guys. And, perhaps it's just me, but some of the happenings in the book seemed unexplained, like who initially opened the door and let Emma out of her "prison". Still, the book makes me want to continue reading the series, especially to see if the person I suspect is Charlie's father really is. A good beginning.
    • 5/5
      I like this book because there is alot fo adventure and caouse.
    • 1/5
      The good: Charlie is a likable character. Some interesting magic stuff.The bad: Everything else. Other characters have zero personality and only show up to help or hurt Charlie when the plot needs it. Plot is often nonsensical; for example, bad guys are terrifyingly powerful, until for no reason they become helpless and scared of Charlie. Overall, it reads more like an outline or rough draft for a story than a completed one.
    • 4/5
      Charlie Bone is surprised to discover that he has the power to hear voices inside photographs. His Grandma Bone immediately enrolls him at Bloor's academy, much to Charlie's dismay. When Charlie gets a visit from a mysterious man, named Mr. Onimous and three cats, he becomes embroiled in a strange mystery. He is given a case from a woman named Ms. Ingledew, who claims the case holds the secret to finding her long lost neice. Once at Bloor's academy Charlie soon discovers that other students hold special powers as well. He also discovers that he is a descendent of the Red King, a highly powerful magician. With the help of his new friends, Charlie discovers the missing girl is a student at Bloor's. Together, with his old friend Benjamin, and a few new friends at Bloor's, they are able to reunite the girl with her aunt.
    • 3/5
      Nice read, but people who wrote that Charlie was the new Harry Potter were way off, in my opinion.Charlie Bone is intended for a younger audience.
    • 5/5
      Great turn paging book, with imagination out of this world, read all about the unknown world of endowed kids that go to Bloor's Academy. Hypnotising novel with great characters and plots!!
    • 5/5
      It's about a boy named Charlie who is endowed by the Red King. He goes to a special school. His gift is hearing people inside pictures and paintings. In this book he finds out about his powers and about his father, who is missing. I really liked it!
    • 4/5
      This was an enjoyable read - somewhat similar to "Harry Potter" in that there is a young boy who is thrust into an unfamiliar world of magical happenings - though not quite so dramatically. I liked watching friendships develop and seeing Charlie begin to interact with adults in new ways. I also enjoyed the exploration of trust and figuring out who to trust.
    • 5/5
      If you liked the Harry Potter series, you will probably like the Charlie Bone series as well. In this school, children are either highly gifted or they are children of the Red King, in which case they inherited one magic power. Charlie's magic power is the ability to look into a picture and know what the people were saying when the picture was taken. One student can create weather phenomena. Another can fly. Great fun!