SOLVED. YA Fiction - Boy who finds out he's magic. [s]

[Cassandra Barsby]

Boy, aged 10/11 years old. Named Charlie Bucket or Charlie ...?
He somehow finds out he has magic. His mum wants to send him to the magic school. Maybe a boarding school? I think she can't afford his uniforms so ends up sewing some of them, along with his grandma. He has a wand i think.

I dunno, I think I remember him getting bullied and picked on walking to and from school so maybe I'm mixing two different books up, potentially he walked home on Friday's. It was a series, came out maybe mid 2000's. Read in maybe 2005-2011. Sorry, I probably read the series more than once. Seemed a bit like Harry Potter, but maybe set in America in modern day.

[Cassandra Barsby]

SOLVED: Funnily enough, the second I posted this I had the impression his name was Charlie Bone

Children of The Red King Series, by Jenny Nimmo

[Cassandra Barsby]

I can't change it to the solved category, theres a popup ad in the way. 😕

[Rainbowheart]

Don't worry, one of the mods will move it for you!

Midnight for Charlie Bone for the link.