Midnight for Charlie Bone
core novel 2002 Children of the Red King
Record
| First published | 2002 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.84 (44,825 ratings, collected 2026-09-21) |
| Page count | 401 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780439488396 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Since his father died, Charlie Bone has lived with his mother and her mother in the house of his other grandmother, Grandma Bone. Then he discovers that he has a strange new gift. Although he tries to hide it, Grandma Bone and her three scary sisters, the Yewbeam aunts, soon find out, and send him to Bloor's Academy, a school for the gifted. Charlie quickly finds life at Bloor's pretty tough, with its strict rules and the malevolent head boy, Manfred Bloor, set against him. When he discovers that the child in one of the photographs, a girl named Emma, is being held at the school, hypnotised, against her will, he and his new friends with gifts try to awaken her. The first book of Jenny Nimmo's Children of the Red King.
Where it sits
- Universe: Children of the Red King
- Series: Children of the Red King core; position 1 of 10 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Jenny Nimmo
Notes
- From the series record (Children of the Red King): Also marketed as the 'Charlie Bone' series (US title convention). A separate prequel trilogy, Chronicles of the Red King (2011-2013), covers Red King backstory and is not included here.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Children of the Red King: position 1 of 10: next The Time Twister (2003)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Children of the Red King
- Egmont / HarperCollins (publisher description, via Scholastic UK)
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