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Midnight for Charlie Bone
Charlie Bone and the Time Twister
Charlie Bone and the Blue Boa
Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors
Charlie Bone and the Hidden King
Charlie Bone and the Wilderness Wolf
Charlie Bone and the Shadow of Badlock
Charlie Bone and the Red Knight
The Secret Kingdom
The Stones of Ravenglass
The Snow Spider trilogy
For Evelyn and Emyr Davies and their family.
First published in Great Britain 2008 by Egmont UK Limited
This edition published 2010
by Egmont UK Limited
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Text copyright © 2008 Jenny Nimmo
The moral rights of the author have been asserted
ISBN 978 1 4052 4586 9
eISBN 978 1 7803 1208 8
A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library
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Contents
8. Destruction in The Kettle Shop
The children of the Red King, called the endowed
| Manfred Bloor | Talents Master at Bloor’s Academy. Previously head boy. A hypnotiser. He is descended from Borlath, eldest son of the Red King. Borlath was a brutal and sadistic tyrant. |
| Naren Bloor | Adopted daughter of Bartholomew Bloor, Naren can send shadow words over great distances. She is descended from the Red King’s grandson who was abducted by pirates and taken to China. |
| Asa Pike |