Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. Here the eternal conflict within families, the battles of siblings divided by jealousy and by their perceptions of good and evil, right and wrong, are resolved and an extraordinary family is healed by the courage of Charlie Bone.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. There will be five magical adventures of 'Children Of The Red King in all. Not least of his troubles are the machinations of his sinister grandmother and her three grim sisters. The evil Bloors have many willing accomplices among the pupils werewolves, hypnotists, mind-readers and witches do their best to defeat Charlie. Their struggles, sometimes scary and sometimes humorous, take place during five terms spent at Bloor's Academy, an ancient school where the endowed descendants of the Red King can be watched and controlled. Olivia, Fidelio, Benjamin and Emma have their own battles to win and their small victories are interwoven with Charlie's long and dangerous quest. The children that help Charlie come from very different backgrounds and ethnic groups. But his good nature and indomitable spirit win him loyal friends, and together they endeavour to overcome the evil that threatens them. Lyell was horribly punished for his courage and Charlie almost suffers the same fate. Charlie is determined to find his lost father, Lyell, who stood alone against his family in trying to prevent what he considered to be a crime. The stories focus on Charlie Bone, aged ten, one of the many descendants of the Red King and an inheritor of part of his magical powers. 'Midnight For Charlie Bone' begins the 'Children Of The Red King' series. The way Charlie's life is about to change, he'll be lucky to live till Christmas. His horrible aunts are delighted with his new talent. He can hear people in photographs talking.

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