Charlie Bone and the Hidden King

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Egmont Books, Limited, 2006 - Juvenile Fiction - 368 pages
Charlie Bone awakes one morning to find the city covered with snow and all the animals gone. Where have they gone - and why? Blessed the dog tells Billy there was a terrible shuddering of the earth and immediately after, he saw a witch with two shadows crossing the hall in Bloor's Academy. Could the discovery of an ancient mirror, and the movement of the shadow in the Red King's portrait have something to do with it?

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A deadly hour
1
Vanishing animals
17
The girl in the sunshine coat
35
Copyright

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About the author (2006)

Born in Windsor, England in 1944, Nimmo's father died when she was only five. By the time she was fourteen, she had gone to two boarding schools and had joined a theater company in England. Her unstable childhood led to a series of diverse jobs where she worked in several fields as a nanny, a photographic researcher, and a floor manager at the BBC. At the BBC she became a director of Jackanory, a children's show. After having her first child, Nimmo left the BBC and began work on her first novel, "The Bronze Trumpeteer." She is widely known for her Charlie Bone character and the Children of the Red King series. She currently resides in Wales with her husband.