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English
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While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.
2) The warlock
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Series
Language
English
Description
Josh has chosen to side neither with his twin sister Sophie nor Nicholas Flamel, but rather to fight alongside Dr. John Dee and Virginia Dare, while the immortal Machiavelli and Billy the Kid plan to set loose the monsters of Alcatraz on San Francisco.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Nicholas Flamel and teenaged twins Josh and Sophie Newman return to San Francisco where a weakened Flamel reunites with his wife, Perenelle, hoping to use his remaining power to prevent the monsters on Alcatraz Island from escaping. Meanwhile, Dr. John Dee and Machiavelli continue to seek power and the twins desperately try to determine who they can trust as they search for Scatty and an immortal who can teach Josh the magic of fire.
6) Powerless
Author
Series
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Soon after moving to Noble's Green, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Daniel learns that his new friends have super powers that they will lose when they turn thirteen, unless he can use his brain power to protect them.
Author
Series
Last Apprentice volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Now thirteen years old, Tom Ward continues his apprenticeship with the Spook as they confront a dangerous bane who can control people's thoughts.
Author
Series
Last Apprentice volume 4
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When witches steal Tom's inheritance and kidnap his relatives, Tom, the Spook, and Alice set out for Pendle Hill, a particularly dangerous district, in hopes of preventing the three witch clans from uniting to raise the Fiend, the Devil himself, thus bringing about an age of darkness.
Author
Series
Last Apprentice volume 6
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
As sixty-year-old John Gregory reflects on the past, he reveals how the world of ghosts, ghasts, witches, and boggarts was exposed to him and he later became the Spook, even though his first intention had been to join the priesthood.
10) Dead City
Author
Series
Dead City volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Molly has always been an outsider, even at New York City's elite Metropolitan Institute of Science and Technology, but that changes when she is recruited to join the Omegas, a secret group that polices and protects zombies.
Author
Series
Last Apprentice volume 3
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Tom is dismayed when his master the Spook decrees that they will be spending the winter on gloomy and forbidding Anglezarke Moor but soon discovers the reason for his master's decision, as they tangle with two dangerous witches and struggle to keep a dark mage from resurrecting an ancient evil.
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