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Charlie Bone and the Time Twister
(Children of the Red King, Book 2)
Table of Contents
Title Page
The Endowed
A Game of Marbles
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
About the Author
Charlie 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 … .
THE ENDOWED
These characters are all descended from the ten children of the Red King, a magician-king who left Africa in the twelfth century accompanied by three leopards.
The Red King had already lived for several centuries and he made a marvelous glass sphere, putting into it all the memories of his travels through the world. He used the sphere to twist through time, visiting the past and the future.
In any other hands, the Time Twister is dangerous and unpredictable.
* * *
THE CHILDREN OF THE RED KING, CALLED THE ENDOWED
MANFRED BLOOR
Head boy of Bloor’s Academy A hypnotizer.
CHARLIE BONE
Descended from the Yewbeams, a family with many magical endowments, Charlie can hear the voices of people in photographs and paintings.
ZELDA DOBINSKI
Descended from a long line of Polish magicians, Zelda is telekinetic. She can move objects with her mind.
ASA PIKE
Descended from a tribe who lived in the Northern forests and had an affinity with strange beasts, Asa can become a beast at dusk.
BILLY RAVEN
Descended from a man who conversed with ravens that sat on a gibbet where dead men hung. For this talent he was banished from his village. Billy can talk to, and understand, animals.
LYSANDER SAGE
Descended from a line of African wise men, he can call up his spirit ancestors.
GABRIEL SILK
Descended from a family of psychics, Gabriel can feel scenes and emotions through the clothes of others.
BETH STRONG
Descended from a family of circus performers — strong men and acrobats. She is also telekinetic.
EMMA TOLLY.
Descended from the Spanish swordsman who accompanied the Red King on his journeys, Emma can become a bird.
TANCRED TORSSON
Descended from a Scandinavian storm-bringer named after the thunder god, Thor, Tancred can bring wind, rain, thunder, and lightning.
HINDI AND DORCAS
Endowed. But their gifts are, as yet, undeveloped.
* * *
A GAME OF MARBLES
It was January 1916 — the coldest winter in living memory.
The dark rooms in Bloor’s Academy were almost as cold as the streets outside. Henry Yewbeam, hurrying down one of the icy passages, began to hum to himself. The humming cheered him up. It warmed his spirits as well as his feet.
On either side of the passage the eerie blue flames of gaslights flickered and hissed in their iron brackets. The smell was horrible. Henry wouldn’t have been surprised to find something dead in one of the dark corners.
