* This is my son’s review for ’The Children of the Red King #7: Charlie Bone and the Shadow.’

(1) About this book. 
     Jenny Nimmo, 427 pages, Fiction

(2) When and where the story takes place. Also choose one important character from this book. 
     This story takes place in a school called Bloor’s academy. Billy Raven is a very important character. He can talk to any kind of animal. He lives with Charlie Bone. He is an orphan. Actually, the Bloor’s academy staff doesn’t like him. 

(3) Briefly summarize the main events of the story.
     In the beginning, Charlie finds a painting in the cellar and accidently got sucked in with his best friend’s dog. Then, he finds out that the painting led him to badlock, an ancient world with no mammals. In the middle, Benjamin’s mom gets furious when she finds out that Charlie lost Runnerbean again. Then Charlie manages to get out of the painting. On the first day Charlie went to school that week, he was sent to the gray room for bad behavior. When he gets out, he found out that he is suspended and Tancred is dead. In the end, Charlie goes home and he gets suprised by something.

(4) On a scale of one to five, how would I compare this book to others I have read?
     It’s ’4.’  I would recommend this book because it is full of good action such as a hole in the painting.