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    Charlie Bone and the Time Twister

    Written by Jenny Nimmo

    Narrated by Simon Russell Beale

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    About this audiobook

    Time is running out for Charlie Bone . . .
    Charlies hopes that the new term at Bloor's Academy will hold no nasty surprises. But then Henry Yewbeam appears, twisted through time from the icy winter of 1916.
    With the scheming Yewbeam aunts on the prowl, and the Bloors out to catch him, Henry will need Charlie's help just to stay alive. Bloor's Academy can be a very dangerous place . . .
    Book Two in The Children of the Red King series!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateSep 9, 2003
    ISBN9780807219294
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    Charlie Bone and the Time Twister
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    Jenny Nimmo

    Jenny Nimmo has been an actor, researcher, floor-manager and script editor for children’s television. Her first book ‘The Bronze Trumpeter’ was published in 1975. ‘The Snow Spider’ won the Tir na N’Og award and the Smarties Grand Prix. Her most recent book, for older readers, is ‘Milo’s Wolves’. Jenny Nimmo was born in Windsor, Berkshire and now lives in Wales with her artist husband and three bi-lingual children.

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    Reviews for Charlie Bone and the Time Twister

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    • 5/5
      Review by: Matthew The story begins with a discription of The Red King, a magical king that ruled the continent of Africa. He had left Africa with three leopards for a long trip, but never came back. He had seven decendants, known as "The Endowed". Our protagonist, Charlie Bone, is one of the Endowed.He goes to Bloor's Academy, a school that knows of the Endowed. He has the power to hear and talk to paintings and other art. When his great great granduncle, Henry, comes from the year 1913 and lost from home, Charlie, with the time twister, a small marble-like artifact that can travel through time, must help Henry return to his time and home. Review by: Dan Good
    • 4/5
      this is a very fun book even for girls. when i was reading this i felt like i was in a mystical world trying to find out the mystery. its kind of like hair potter but i say better and shorter.
    • 4/5
      The novel, Charlie Bone and the Time Twister, encompasses the theme that you never know who to trust. In the beginning, Henry Yewbeam, one of the protagonists struggles with his evil cousin Ezekiel sending him into the future using a marble called the Time Twister. Henry Yewbeam ends up at Bloor's Academy where he finds his evil cousin Ezekiel who is now 100 years old. Throughout the middle, Charlie Bone and Henry meet one day as Charlie is walking the halls of Bloor's academy. Charlie learns that Henry is his long lost cousin and agrees to help him. By the end, after enduring many hardships and leaping over many obstacles, Henry is reunited with his family in the present world and he stays there. (416/416)
    • 3/5
      Nimmo, Jenny, Charlie Bone and the Time Twister, Chldren of the Red King Book 2 Henry Yewbeam was tricked into traveling in time, so he shows up in Bloor's a hundred years (give or take) after he left it. Charlie tries to get him home, tries to hide him, tries to find him a safe place to grow up.
    • 3/5
      It's the year 1916 and Henry and James Yewbeam have been sent to live at Bloor's Academy with their Uncle Gideon Bloor because their sister Daphne has Diphtheria. One day Henry is alone playing marbles when his cousin Zeke rolls a marble known as the "Time Twister" towards him. Henry can't resist the beautiful marble, but when he grabs it, he is propelled almost ninety years into the future. Fortunately, he meets his cousin Charlie Bone who hides him so the Bloor's can't find him. It's not easy, many of the students at Bloor Academy are "endowed" with special powers and some use their powers in malevolent ways. Plus, Charlie's Yewbeam aunts would like to get a hold of Henry. It will take all the efforts of Charlie, his friends, and his Uncle Paton to keep Henry safe. "Charlie Bone and the Time Twister", the second book in Jenny Nimmo's the Children of the Red King series, is a charming if somewhat derivative book. In the front of book, there is a list of the endowed children at Bloor's Academy and their special powers, which is a useful reference. However, Nimmo can be a bit inconsistent with the powers. For example, Gabriel Silk can feel other people's emotions by touching their clothes, which literally causes him pain at times, yet at other times he casually handles people's clothes with no problem at all. Otherwise, the supernatural elements are nicely done; I especially love the "flames", three seemingly ageless cats, who have a knack of being there when needed. While Nimmo has a good story going on in this series, her writing could be tightened up as she spends too much time telling her readers what is going on instead of letting the action show them. Also, too many times she uses the word famous needlessly, why exactly would gerbils be famous? Henry disappears from the book for long stretches of time; it would have been nice to see more of his side of things. Nimmo does have a nice sense of humor in the book and I loved the word play: Tancred Torsson, who has the ability to create storms, lives in Thunder House on Hail Road. "Charlie Bone and the Time Twister" is good fun for young and old alike, but children may enjoy it more as adults might like a deeper read.
    • 4/5
      I read the first Charlie Bone a long time ago - when it was new. At the time I felt it was a poor copy of the Harry Potter concept - too obviously deriviative. I finally returned to the series this week, reading the second book - and I think that this book manages to move away from the Harry Potter similarities and develop into a work in its own right.The books are aimed at younger readers than Harry Potter, so comparisons are unfair. For their target audeince, these will be enjoyable books with a good adventure, and one that can be enjoyed by older readers too.Not my favourite of Jenny Nimmo's work, but a good read all the same.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this installment in the series quite as much as the first. I'm enjoying watching adults "come out of the woodwork" to help Charlie. I liked that this book ended with another party. Even though there are wicked adults, there are adults that take care of the children in these novels, which is a good message.
    • 3/5
      Midnight For Charlie Bone, Charlie Bone and the Time Twister ,and Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy by Jenny Nimmo are pretty good books. They are about Charlie bone, a 10/11 year old boy who discovers he has the magical ability to hear people talking in pictures [what they said what the picture was taken]. His gleeful aunts quickly ship him off to Bloor's Academy, where geniuses go. When he gets there, Charlie discovers a thick plot that begins to unravel, concerning a traded off baby, a hypnotised girl and a missing father. The next 2 books are different, much easier to understand. It might just be me, but in the first 2 books, I kept messing up who people are.
    • 5/5
      The second of the Charlie Bone series. Charlie is still attending Bloor's Academy and he encounters a relative who has traveled through time - against his will. Will Charlie return things to normal again?Nimmo's writing allows the reader to travel along and experience all the things Charlie does. Great, fun, entertaining!
    • 3/5
      Charlie Bone is the second title in Nimmo's Charlie Bone series and does a good job at keeping pace with the first novel. It begins right after the first book, at the beginning of the second half of the school year. The plot quickly turns ominous when a strange boy appears out of nowhere, a boy who looks uncannily like Charlie himself. Charlie and his friends once again find themselves pitted against their evil relatives, in a story that is setting the stage for a great battle between the warring factions of the children of the red king. Although good for a quick read, this series does not provide the suspense or the manic need to keep on reading as the Harry Potter series. Still, it is a good substitute in those times of desperately needing an English magic school fix.
    • 4/5
      I bought it cause it looked like a Harry Potter knock off.
      It's pretty funny.

      I liked it. I read it a long time ago, so I don't remember everything.
    • 3/5
      Obwohl ich den ersten Teil kenne, kam ich etwas schwer in den zweiten Band hinein. Aus der Vergangenheit kommt der elfjährige Henry. Charlie und seine Freunde helfen ihm. Das Ende hat mir sehr gefallen.
    • 3/5
      Is this series going anywhere? My son highly recommends it, but so far it's doing nothing for me....
    • 1/5
      I quite enjoyed the first novel in this series. While it was very derivative of Harry Potter it was light hearted, middle grade fun. It flowed well and kept me interested from start to finish. Unfortunately, I can't say the same for The Time Twister.This book was one of the most mean spirited pre-teen novels that I've ever picked up. In tone, it shared some similarities with Lemony Snicket's work, however as far as I could tell it was played entirely seriously. Characters are divided into "good" and "bad" and there's no grey areas. At one point, a woman runs her brother down in a car just to keep him out of the way. In another, a little boy maliciously cripples his mother to stop her from leaving an abusive marriage. Children get starved and tortured and attacked by dogs. While the cover may be bright and cheerful, it's a very cruel little book.The plot also has a lot of issues. The main plot concerning Henry and the Time Twister is often shunted to the background, falling behind a number of unrelated subplots. At one point, this means that Henry is left trapped in a dungeon for over a week before Charlie and his friends get around to rescuing him. The characters in this story are also fairly dim, never seeming to be able to resolve problems for themselves and instead relying for the solutions to just fall into their laps (which occurs with alarming regularity).The second part of a series should be used to further develop the ideas raised in the first book but this is not the case here. None of the hanging plot threads from Midnight for Charlie Bone are resolved and the only real character development is that Charlie learns a new use for his power. Characters are still as flat as ever, offering no real surprises. I was looking forward to reading this novel but was left disappointed. I hope that Nimmo takes more care of her work in The Blue Boa.
    • 3/5
      This series is still totally not Harry Potter. A Time Twister is nothing like a Time Turner.

      Ok, I like to snark on these books, but I'm enjoying them enough that I got the next 3 volumes from the library yesterday.