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Charlie Bone and the Beast (Children of the Red King #6)
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Charlie Bone and the Beast (Children of the Red King #6)
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Charlie Bone and the Beast (Children of the Red King #6)

Written by Jenny Nimmo

Narrated by Simon Jones

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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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, and now Charlie needs the help of the Flames to rescue his classmate.

Manfred Bloor has also taken the new endowed student, Dagbert 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 Dagbert?
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 1, 2008
ISBN9780545122351
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Charlie Bone and the Beast (Children of the Red King #6)
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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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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    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.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Enjoyable but very forgettable.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    fun book to read
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    IT IS SO FASCINATIG AND ENTERTAINIG I LOVE WHEN CHARLIE BONE RESCUED ASA
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    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.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Another fantastic read in the Charlie Bone series. Try the others as well.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The Charlie Bone series will keep those 'when is the next Potter book coming out' jitters at bay. Sorry Ms Nimmo but they just aren't as good. They seem a little more loosly written, not quite as polished. And I can't believe someone hasn't been sued for plagerism. There is a castle that serves as a school, evil teachers/students, nasty aunts, talking pictures, a Pettigrew and many other similarities. Don't get me wrong, they were entertaining. Just missing something.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Another amazing book in the series of the Children of the Red King series. Chalie Bone finally finds his father and is now trying to save one of the endowed, a were-beast named Asa. He runs into new enemies and makes new allies. This book was exciting and suspenceful. I can't wait for another book by Jenny Nimmo.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    In the 6th book, Charile's mission is to save the were-beast Asa. But FIRST he has to FINDS him before he can save him. To make things worst, there's a new kid at Bloor's whose powers is to drown people. And to make matters EVEN WORST, Billy can't communicate with animals any longer. This is a truly amazing book, I only started reading it today but I'm already done! I just COULDNT PUT THE BOOK DOWN!!! In lots of ways Charlie Bone is a lot like Harry Potter, I'm suprised I didn't realize this sooner. I'm dying to read the 7th book, two thumbs up for Jenny Nimmo!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    very good one of my favorites
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    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.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    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.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Is this series going anywhere? My son highly recommends it, but so far it's doing nothing for me....
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    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.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    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.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    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.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Wattered-down Harry Potter.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    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!
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Very bad, very obvious Harry Potter rip off. Do not bother.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    also a very good series, if your into action and mystery, this is the book for you.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    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
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    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.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    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.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    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.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    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.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    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.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    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.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    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.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I like this book because there is alot fo adventure and caouse.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    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.