With the help of Charlie's friend Benjamin and the loyal dog Runner Bean, as well as some of his family members Charlie goes on his first adventure to Bloor's Academy with the hopes of not letting Miss Ingledew down. His wicked grandmother Bone sends him to Bloor's Academy which at first looks like a dreaded thing but it could lead to the where abouts of the missing girl. He can read the thoughts of the people in photos when the photo was taken. Charlie gets asked by a book store owner Julia Ingledew to find her long lost niece that her brother had traded for a strange case this case was given to Charlie along with this seemingly impossible task of finding the lost girl as well as finding out about his special power. Midnight for Charlie Bone is about ten year old Charlie Bone as he starts to notice strange things happening to him. The sequel of it is Charlie Bone and the Time Twister.

The hypnotism cannot be proved to the authorities and the children will have to return next term, once more under the power of Dr Bloor.Midnight for Charlie Bone is the first novel in the Charlie Bone Series. Charlie realises the girl from the photograph must be Emilia Moon and manages to awaken her using the box. They discover the cats are eight hundred years old, and that Bloor and Manfred are keeping a girl under hypnosis. Exploring at the weekend with new friends Olivia and Billy, Charlie overhears a conversation between Dr Bloor and Manfred. Mr Onimous' cats have been involved in a mysterious fire at the school, and more frightening than that, Manfred's sinister gift is to be able to hypnotise people. Charlie asks about his father's tie, and Gabriel surprises him by saying his father is lost, not dead. He meets someone else with a gift, Gabriel Silk, who can pick up people's feeling from their clothes. Charlie quickly finds life at Bloor's pretty tough, with its strict rules and the malevolent head boy, Manfred, set against him. The mystery deepens when Charlie tries to return the picture to its rightful owner, a bookseller who gives him a heavy box, saying only that it was once swapped for a child. Mr Onimous appears, and tell Charlie he must find the baby from the photograph, lost inside Bloor's. Although he tries to hide his new gift, Grandma Bone's scary sisters soon find out, and determine to send him to Bloor's Academy. Whilst looking at a picture of a couple with a baby and a cat, he suddenly discovers an extraordinary magical talent - he can hear their voices. What's happening to him? Why now? Since his father died, Charlie Bone has lived with his mother and her mother, in the house of his other grandmother, Grandma Bone. He can hear people in photographs talking.

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