Two follow up books, Henry and the Guardians of the Lost and Gabriel and the Phantom Sleepers, were written a few years after the prequel trilogy.
[2] In the United States, the books were released with the following titles (variants shown by bold type): In the first novel, 10-year-old Charlie Bone discovers that he has a special power.
His cruel and uncaring Grandmother Bone and her three evil sisters send him to Bloor's Academy, where many endowed children study.
Julia asks Charlie to find her missing Emma, who was traded for a mysterious briefcase by her brother-in-law.
In 1916, Charlie's great-great-uncle, Henry Yewbeam, is tricked into looking into the Time Twister while staying with his jealous cousin, Ezekiel Bloor.
However, the dog Blessed also sees this, and tells Billy Raven, an orphan who can communicate with animals and is acting as a spy for Ezekiel in return for the chance to be adopted.
Together they devise a plan: Henry will go in one of the canteen's freezers until the temperature is the same as winter in 1916, then look at the Time Twister and be transported back; Charlie will keep checking that he's still breathing.
Hearing Charlie shout out, Cook comes running, and manages to heave the door open, revealing Henry who has turned blue and fainted of hypothermia.
Charlie then returns to his dormitory, with the help of a magical torch that Cook gives him which shows up details that aren't usually visible.
Meanwhile, Grizelda Bone and her three sisters introduce Charlie to a pretty girl named Belle Donner who will go to Bloor's.
At school the group finds out about an invisible boy named Ollie Sparks, who has been put in his condition by an ancient blue snake with feathers.
While talking Dagbert experiences wild symptoms, such as glowing and pain, and he keeps telling Charlie to get his Sea Gold Creatures from under his pillow.
When Billy uses his special candles and Charlie uses his wand (moth) Asa turns into his human form as they leave the area.
The enchanter Count Harken is back to take his revenge on the Red King's heirs, starting with Charlie Bone's family.
Traveling through a painting to the terrifying countryside, Charlie and his best friend's dog, Runner Bean, take up the quest.
Can they get past an army of trolls, rescue Runner Bean and Charlie's ancestors, and get out before it's too late, or will Count Harken finally succeed?
However, with the Pets Cafe closed, Billy trapped in Badlock, and Olivia "taken over," it looks like Charlie's only hope is the mysterious Red Knight.
Paton believes the Raven family rightfully owns it which means Billy could inherit the academy if the will can be found.
Manfred and Ezekiel die in a freak accident, and Dr. Bloor moves away, (presumably to Paris, where his wife lives), along with all the evil people in the city.
The book (and series) ends when Billy whispers to Charlie at the Pet's Cafe, "Tancred and Emma are holding hands."
Midway through the series, Manfred's hypnotizing endowment recedes and he gains his ancestor Borlath's ability to produce and control fire.
His morality is directly influenced by the position of the moon, but he is generally a follower of the Bloors until the eighth book, when he becomes allied with Charlie Bone.
Asa Pike, a werebeast, turns into a monstrous creature in the prolonged absence of natural or magical light.
Joshua Tilpin can control magnetism and descended from Lilith, the Red King's oldest daughter, and Harken, the evil enchanter who married her.
She lives with her aunt, Julia Ingledew because her parents died and her previous guardian made the mistake of giving her to the Bloors.
Señor Alvaro has the power to make people believe things with images he puts in their minds.
Samuel Sparks was disguised as an art teacher at Bloors Academy hoping to find his brother Ollie.
Maisie Jones is Amy Bone's mother and descendant of Mathonwy, the Welsh magician and friend to the Red King.
When her mother died under mysterious circumstances in Yewbeam castle, Lucretia and her sisters stayed and lived with Yolanda.
Newcomer Cory McClane would star as Charlie Bone, alongside Joseph Fiennes, Carmen Ejogo, Emma Sidi, and Giulia Blue.