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Charlie hears voices -- The yewbeam aunts -- The flame cats -- The inventor's case -- Trapped in the dark -- A ruined school break -- Hypnotized! -- Breaking the rules -- The Red King's room -- Skeletons in the closet -- Clues at last -- Mind games -- The inventor's tale -- Billy's dark bargain -- A ringing, chanting, shining knight -- War -- The inventor's daughter -- The Red King -- Into the ruin -- The battle of the endowed -- The longest night of the year.
Summary, etc.:
Charlie Bone's life with his widowed mother and two grandmothers undergoes a dramatic change when he discovers that he can hear people in photographs talking. He is sent to dreary Bloor's Academy, a boarding school for gifted children, where the endowed Children of the Red King can be monitored under one roof.