Product Description

Back in Bloor's Academy, Charlie's power takes on a new dimension. He meets a new gallery of characters, including Mr. Pilgrim's replacement, Tantalus Ebony, and the mysterious new student Joshua Tilpin, who appears to be magnetic. But not all is well. Billy has been adopted by the O'Gres, a child-hating couple, who carry with them a gray bag of oaths wherever they go, seducing Billy to sign an oath of obedience, before locking him up behind a force field in an odd place called The Passing House.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16412 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 432 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780439545280
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From School Library Journal
Grade 5-8–Charlie Bone is starting a new school year and once again there are unpleasant surprises in store for him and his friends at Bloor's Academy. Little Billy Raven has finally been adopted, but the sinister de Greys have other plans for Billy, and it is up to Charlie and his friends to find a way to save him. Nimmo once again delivers an exciting, plot-driven tale that is sure to please fantasy and adventure fans. This new chapter in Charlie's saga is full of plot twists and thrills that will leave readers eagerly awaiting the next installment in the series. While the character development is a bit lacking, fantasy fans will enjoy the story.–Anna M. Nelson, Collier County Public Library, Naples, FL
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From Booklist
Gr. 4-6. In the fourth book of the projected five in the Red King series, Charlie Bone and his friends (and enemies) begin a new term at Bloor's Academy, where many of the students and staff are endowed with magical abilities. Hoping to find his father and help a friend, Charlie travels to the ominous Castle of Mirrors. Nimmo adds several inventive elements to this magical world, including the transformation of Charlie's wand into a silent creature of mysterious power. Explaining the complex background story and introducing the many characters to new readers slows down the action quite a bit at the start, but the pace picks up nicely when Charlie goes to the rescue of his friend Billy. Prediction: this fantasy should do quite well, assuming a continuing demand for stories about a nice lad with magical powers who goes to boarding school, longs to see his father, has adventures, makes a few mistakes, and gets by with a little help from his friends. Carolyn Phelan
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About the Author
Jenny Nimmo is an award-winning author who lives with her painter husband in a converted mill in Wales. Ms. Nimmo's books include The Snow Spider, winner of the Smarties Prize, and Griffin's Castle, short-listed for the Smarties Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Award, and the W. H. Smith's Mind Boggling Award. The Owl Tree won the Smarties Gold Prize Award for six-to-eight-year olds.

Customer Reviews

Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors
Charlie Bone and the
Castle of Mirrors
is overflowing with
excitement and adventure...

If you like mystery, if you like excitement, if you like adventure, then Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors is right for you! Charlie, the main character, brings all of those to the story. Charlie Bone and the castle of Mirrors is a great book, better than you'll ever read. There are four in the series, all of them are really good, but this one -the fourth- is the best yet!

Imagine if you had the ability to look at a photograph, hear the voices of the people in it, and maybe even go into it. That's what Charlie can do. He and his friends Billy, Gabriel, Emma, and maybe one more all have the ability to do things that seem impossible.

Charlie Bone and his friends, Billy, Emma, Gabriel, Tancred, Lysander, Olivia, and Fedilio all go to Bloor's Academy. Most of them are endowed, meaning that they can do things that seem impossible, and one is soon to be. They all stick together, helping each other through hard times.

The book is about battle between good and evil, Charlie and his friends against a teacher's assistant, three old women, a beast, and a crazy old man; not very fair teams, but a pretty fair fight. The book is also about Charlie and Billy going on a quest to find Charlie's " lost" dad and to find a safe place for Billy.

Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors is filled with secrets, but there is one huge one where all the facts come together. To figure out the secret you've got to read the book. Jenny Nimmo wrote this book really well. You get so many pictures in your head and you have all different kinds of emotions. In some parts you want to laugh out loud because it is such a happy part. In some parts you want to scream because it is such a scary part, and in some parts you don't really know how to feel and you just want to keep reading.

Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors is a wonderful book that you never want to stop reading, and I highly recommend it.

Much, much different than the first three.
I liked this book a little bit better than the first three in some ways but less in others. One thing I really liked better about this one was that it wasn't based around saving some new unknown character, and most of it took place outside of school. This was good because the first three books always seemed similar in these aspects. There were a couple of disappointments, however. You only see Benjamin once, very briefly, and the plot seemed a little pointless. But still, I'm glad I read it, and I think, if you're a fan of the series, you will too. However, if you haven't read the others, please, please read them first.

GREAT BOOK
I love all the books in the "Charlie Bone" series but this is one of the best. I zoomed through this book and couldn't stop turning the pages. It was a mystery, adventure, and suspense book. I highly reccommend it for middle school kids!