Midnight for Charlie Bone: The Children of the Red King #1

Children of the Red King is a series of eight books that follow Charlie Bone, a boy who discovers he belongs to an ancient lineage of people with supernatural abilities tracing back to the enigmatic and powerful Red King. The Red King’s 10 children split into a good group and an evil group, and this conflict continues into the present day. The primary setting is Bloor’s Academy, a school for artistically or magically gifted children. Each book in the series presents Charlie with a new mystery or challenge, bringing him closer to discovering the truth about what happened to his missing father, what the Bloors and their allies are planning, and his role in the war between the Red King’s descendants.

Midnight for Charlie Bone focuses on discovering what happened to the missing girl Emma Tolly. In Charlie Bone and the Time Twister (2003), Charlie tries to help his great-great-uncle, Henry Yewbeam, who was sent forward in time by a young Ezekiel Bloor. Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy (2004) has Charlie and his friends trying to help the titular boy, Ollie Sparks, who was made invisible by a strange blue snake.