midnight

__Midnight for Charlie Bone__, by Jenny Nimmo ISBN: 0-439-47429-9 c2002 401 pages R.L.- 4.8

pp. 7-8 where Charlie hears the voices in the photo
 * Good sections to read aloud:**

Charlie Bone lives with his mother and two grandmothers and is a “normal” child. This is what disappoints his Grandma Bone very much. She doesn’t like that he is “ordinary.” She wishes he had some sort of “power” like the rest of the Bones and Yeawbeams, but he doesn’t. That is, until his mother comes home with the wrong photo that Charlie needed blown up for his friends birthday present. Charlie wants to keep his “power” to himself, but his Grandma Bone knows something is up. Once she finds out, she sends Charlie away to Bloor’s Academy, a school for “endowed” children. Charlie’s mom can’t do anything to stop Grandma Bone. If she doesn’t agree, Grandma Bone will kick her out of the very house she lives in. Grandma Bone is only letting her stay there because she hoped that one day Charlie would possess a gift like his long lost father. Lots of mysterious things are happening at Bloor’s Academy that tie in with a lady named Miss Ingledew and Charlie, of course, is wrapped up right in the middle of it all!
 * Summary**:

YA fiction--fantasy; boarding schools; friends; powers
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