About this book
Scholastic Booktalk
“The third book of the series continues to provide adventure, excitement, danger, magic, winsome and loathsome characters, and even a touch of romance during the struggle for good against evil.” - Voice of Youth Advocates
“A wild roller-coaster ride of a story.” - School Library Journal
Things are changing at Bloor's Academy, and Charlie's in the middle of it, along with a blue boa constrictor, an invisible boy, and an evil, century-old shapeshifter!
Things are changing at Bloor's Academy, with new students, new teachers, strange warnings and premonitions of certain danger. Charlie's Uncle Paton has disappeared, leaving a cryptic note: "My sisters are up to no good. Have decided to go and put a stop to things. If I don't, someone very dangerous will arrive." Charlie's aunts are letting Belle, the new student at the Academy, stay with them, something that makes Charlie decidedly uneasy. He agrees with his uncle, the aunts are up to something – but what? Belle is blonde and beautiful, and all the boys at the Academy are already half in love with her, except Charlie, who thinks the way she looks and the way she acts don't fit together. She looks like a girl, but she acts like an adult. What does that mean?
Then there's the note that fell out of the new art teacher's pocket. It warns of a shapeshifter coming to the school and mentions a boy named Ollie, who just might be the boy who disappeared from the school attics years before. Could they be one and the same? And if they are, why hasn't anyone ever seen him? Even when Manfred locked Emma in the attics, she never saw anyone, even though someone unlocked the door and let her out.
And what about the story about the blue boa that belongs to Ezekial, who lives at the school? Why hasn't anyone ever seen it either? And are the stories about it really true?
Things are changing at Bloor's Academy, and not always in good ways. Will Charlie and his friends be able to make the pieces of the puzzle fit, or will other forces change the Academy forever?
Also available:
Book One: Midnight for Charlie Bone
Book Two: Charlie Bone and the Time Twister
This Booktalk was written by librarian and booktalking expert Joni R. Bodart
- Subjects:Families and Social Structures, School Life, Magic
