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Charlie Bone is a 10yr old boy who discovers he can hear what goes on in photographs. His horrible great aunts, the Yewbeams, then send him off to a gloomy grey academy called 'Bloor's Academy', where he makes some new friends.....and enemies.
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Charlie finds out that once, ten years ago, the Bloors stole a baby girl and put her under hypnosis. Her aunt (her parents now being dead) is looking for her, and Charlie and his friends Fidelio, Benjamin, and Olivia discover that she is an endowed girl at Bloor's called Emilia Moon. Her real name is Emma Tolly, and her inventor father, Dr Mostyn Tolly, left an invention which he hoped might awaken her.
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They manage to wake her, and she goes off to live with her aunt, Julia Ingledew, who runs a bookshop called Ingledew's.
However, Emma's adopted family, the Moons, are not ready to let Emma go without a fight as the Bloors paid them a lot of money to look after her, but Charlie's Uncle Paton forces the Bloors to hand over Emma's adoption papers, and so Emma escapes the Bloors.
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To top off the book, at the end Charlie learns of the Ruin Game, a game devised by the Bloors where the students have to go into the big ruins of the Red King's castle, and look for a medal - by night.
Charlie manages to get lost, as the Bloors had planned, and they send in the were-beast, Asa Pike, to finish Charlie off. Luckily for Charlie, Fidelio and Gabriel Silk, another of Charlie's friends, alert two of the other, more powerfully endowed; Tancred Torsson and Lysander Sage.
Gabriel, Tancred and Lysander rescue Charlie from the ruin, and the school has a big party at the end.
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