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

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    About this audiobook

    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
    PublisherScholastic
    Release dateMay 1, 2008
    ISBN9780545122351
    Charlie Bone and the Beast (Children of the Red King #6)
    Author

    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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    • 3/5
      Wattered-down Harry Potter.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 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!
    • 5/5
      also a very good series, if your into action and mystery, this is the book for you.
    • 4/5
      fun book to read
    • 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
      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.
    • 4/5
      A boy nemed charlie bone has a very weird life. his family is split up into to familys that dont like eachother and on top of that he is born with a gift of being able to hear conversations and voices in photographs and pictures. this gift gets him accepted into a school called bloors academy. this school is for children who are "endowed" or gifted in a way such as charlie but not in the same exact way. when he arrives at the school a series of events happen that are anything but normal and they all are related in a way that makes sense later in the story......
    • 2/5
      Although there is a very superficial similarity to the Potter book, this is really a different story. There is little or no endowed v. normal prejudice. The moral struggle is less cosmic. I found the motivations a little unclear. But maybe I did not read carefully enough.
    • 5/5
      I can't help but make comparisons to Harry Potter - what with the 'magic' school, British feel, Young wizards finding their way....But I stop there with measuring them. Charlie Bone stands alone and taken for what it is - does very well. While I think aimed at a young middle school age there are still very dark images and not everyone is as they first seem - or ought to seem.I don't care for Charlie's crappy life at home - yet is does make for entertaining reading.The writing is deft, most of the characters are intriguing, and Charlie Bone is an appealing boy. The story is marred by some predictability, and the role of the endowed in this otherwise contemporary, unmagical society is not clear. Many aspects of the book are not fully thought out, making it less compelling than it might be. But this is the beginning of a series and as it is written with a younger set in mind I think this is purposeful and we will be privy to more information as the series goes on.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 1/5
      Very bad, very obvious Harry Potter rip off. Do not bother.
    • 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.
    • 3/5
      Is this series going anywhere? My son highly recommends it, but so far it's doing nothing for me....
    • 4/5
      Enjoyable but very forgettable.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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
      A great fantasy series for those that enjoyed Harry Potter.
    • 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.
    • 5/5
      IT IS SO FASCINATIG AND ENTERTAINIG I LOVE WHEN CHARLIE BONE RESCUED ASA
    • 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.
    • 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!
    • 3/5
      Mystery, fantasy - first book in the series. Like Harry Potter, young boy discovers he has ability to look inside snapshots and see what was going on when picture was taken. Boy is sent to special school by his weird aunts (the moonbeams?) to encourage his unique capabilities.
    • 5/5
      I like this book because there is alot fo adventure and caouse.
    • 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.
    • 3/5
      Pretty decent beginning to this series. It's a bit slow to start and their needs to be some character developement but it was good enough to get me to read the next one.
    • 4/5
      Charlie Bone has a lot of the elements of Harry Potter yet with a different flavour. When his proud aunts discover that he does indeed have magical powers, he is sent to Bloor's academy, a special school for the magically and/or artistically gifted, where many adventures ensue. I would not hesitate to recommend this series to anyone who is suffering Harry Potter withdrawal (and as I am one of those millions, that's saying something!)
    • 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