Naren Bloor, Bartholemew Bloor's daughter, can send shadow words over great distances using moonbeams. I remember that I loved every book and was looking forward to every library trip where I could go get the next book in the series!

Newcomer Cory McClane would star as Charlie Bone, alongside Joseph Fiennes, Carmen Ejogo, Emma Sidi, and Giulia Blue. Together they devise a plan: Henry will go in one of the canteen's freezers until the temperature is the same as winter in 1916, then look at the Time Twister and be transported back; Charlie will keep checking that he's still breathing. The first instalment of the international best-selling fantasy series from Jenny Nimmo starring Charlie Bone.Dagbert has to be around Charlie all the time, so he starts to drive his friends away by insulting them. Following Charlie Bone as he sets off to uncover the truth about his Father's disappearance and the very mysteries of the school, Grandma Bone, and so on, was a thrill. I enjoyed how it delved into the history of Red King's family and how the author was able to introduce and explain the children's powers.

One exception to the poor adults was Uncle Paton; there was some depth of character and some struggle for him in the beginning - something he needed to overcome, and he ended up being a staunch supporter of Charlie's - but again, he would just leave Charlie in the hands of the boy's evil grandmother, and it felt like this was just unrealistic. Uncle Paton lives in the house with Charlie's mother, Maisie (Charlie's maternal grandmother), Grandma Bone, and himself. Charlie's wand (which was turned into a moth) ends up helping them from drowning and Charlie sees the Red King across the bridge.He was Manfred's sidekick until book 5, when he helped Charlie and his friends by releasing the Red King. Also known as the Children of the Red King series, the books are ideal for fans of Harry Potter, Eva Ibbotson and Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart. She has won several significant awards for her children’s fiction, including the Nestle Smarties Book Prize and the Tir na n-Og Welsh Arts Council award for The Snow Spider. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.