Jenny Nimmo - Charlie Bone and the Wilderness Wolf

Books by Jenny Nimmo

Midnight for Charlie Bone

Charlie Bone and the Time Twister

Charlie Bone and the Blue Boa

Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors

Charlie Bone and the Hidden King

Charlie Bone and the Wilderness Wolf

Charlie Bone and the Shadow of Badlock

Charlie Bone and the Red Knight

The Secret Kingdom

The Stones of Ravenglass

The Snow Spider trilogy

For Max and Molly Philo - one day.

First published in Great Britain 2007 by Egmont UK Limited

This edition published 2010

by Egmont UK Limited

239 Kensington High Street

London W8 6SA

Text copyright © 2007 Jenny Nimmo

The moral rights of the author have been asserted

ISBN 978 1 4052 3317 0

eISBN 978 1 7803 1207 1

www.egmont.co.uk

A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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Cover

Title page

Books by Jenny Nimmo Books by Jenny Nimmo Midnight for Charlie Bone Charlie Bone and the Time Twister Charlie Bone and the Blue Boa Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors Charlie Bone and the Hidden King Charlie Bone and the Wilderness Wolf Charlie Bone and the Shadow of Badlock Charlie Bone and the Red Knight The Secret Kingdom The Stones of Ravenglass The Snow Spider trilogy

Copyright For Max and Molly Philo - one day. First published in Great Britain 2007 by Egmont UK Limited This edition published 2010 by Egmont UK Limited 239 Kensington High Street London W8 6SA Text copyright © 2007 Jenny Nimmo The moral rights of the author have been asserted ISBN 978 1 4052 3317 0 eISBN 978 1 7803 1207 1 www.egmont.co.uk A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Egmont is passionate about helping to preserve the world’s remaining ancient forests. We only use paper from legal and sustainable forest sources, so we know where every single tree comes from that goes into every paper that makes up every book. This book is made from paper certified by the Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC), an organisation dedicated to promoting responsible management of forest resources. For more information on the FSC, please visit www.fsc.org . To learn more about Egmont’s sustainable paper policy, please visit www.egmont.co.uk/ethical .

The endowed children

Prologue

1. Not-quite-humans

2. Strangers from the sea

3. Dagbert Endless

4. The howling

5. The altering bugs

6. Feromel’s kettle

7. A stone troll

8. Hunting the Wilderness Wolf

9. Asa’s disguise

10. The perilous bridge

11. Merromals

12. Lysander and Lauren

13. The street of magicians

14. An unbeatable sword

15. The stolen cloak

16. Charlie makes a dangerous journey

17. The hidden sword hilt

18. The shrivelling shroud

19. The rescue begins

20. The Red Knight

21. Charlie gets a postcard

About Egmont Press

The endowed are all descended from the ten children of the Red King: a magician-king who left Africa in the twelfth century, accompanied by three leopards.