He meets someone else with a gift, Gabriel Silk, who can pick up people’s feeling from their clothes. Charlie quickly finds life at Bloor’s pretty tough, with its strict rules and the malevolent head boy, Manfred, set against him. The mystery deepens when Charlie tries to return the picture to its rightful owner, a bookseller who gives him a heavy box, saying only that it was once swapped for a child. Mr Onimous appears, and tell Charlie he must find the baby from the photograph, lost inside Bloor’s. Although he tries to hide his new gift, Grandma Bone’s scary sisters soon find out, and determine to send him to Bloor’s Academy. Looking at a picture of a couple with a baby and a cat, he suddenly discovers he can hear their voices. Since his father died, Charlie Bone has lived with his mother and her mother, in the house of his other grandmother, Grandma Bone. THE OWL TREE won the Smarties Gold Prize Award for six to eight year olds, and THE CHARLIE BONE books have repeatedly found their way on to bestseller lists. Her books include The Snow Spider, winner of the Smarties Prize, EMYLN’S MOON, THE CHESTNUT SOLDIER, and GRIFFIN’S CASTLE, which was shortlisted for the Smarties Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Award, and the W.H. Jenny Nimmo is an award winning author who lives with her painter husband in a converted mill in Wales. Will he be able to use this special spider to bring his missing sister, Bethan, home? The Snow Spider spins an icy, sparkly web of mystical intrigue that sets the stage for the next two books in this outstanding trilogy! One blustery day, unsure what to do with his newfound magic, Gwyn throws the brooch to the wind and receives a silvery snow spider in return.

She gives him five gifts to help him a brooch, a piece of dried seaweed, a tin whistle, a scarf, and a broken toy horse. On Gwyn’s 9th birthday, his grandmother tells him he may be a magician, like his Welsh ancestors.

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