Charlie Bone and the Time Twister

Jenny Nimmo. Orchard, $12.99 (416pp) ISBN 978-0-439-49687-2

The hero returns to Bloor's Academy in Charlie Bone and the Time Twister: Children of the Red King Book 2 by Jenny Nimmo. When Charlie's young ancestor Henry Yewbeam accidentally travels through time from 1916 to the present, he needs Charlie's help to hide from his cousin Ezekiel Bloor and the scheming Yewbeam aunts. Can Charlie get Henry back home again?

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