Ordinary Charlie Bone receives a gift that runs in his family on his tenth birthday when he can hear the people in a photograph speaking to each other. So as all gifted children do he attends Bloor's Academy. This second book in the series maps Charlie's progress when he encounters time-slipped Henry Yewbeam.

 

This book features in the following series: Charlie Bone, Children Of the Red King .

There are 384 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Egmont UK Ltd .

Jenny Nimmo is the acclaimed author of the Charlie Bone series. She has won several significant awards for her children's books, including the Nestle Smarties Book Prize and the Tir na n-Og Welsh Arts Council award for The Snow Spider. She lives in Wales with her husband, David.